This superannuated former troop has always found Beethoven interesting. In my senior year of high school, I stayed up all night and recorded the Deutsche Grammophon set of the Nine Symphonies - Berlin Philharmoniker - Herbert Von Karajan - playing on WGMS-FM in Washington, DC.
Of course the Philistines at my school had no inkling that it was Beethoven's Birthday. They were groovin' on Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.
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Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)