Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. This tedtalk is so funny to me. Zander is a smart man with talents of 100 men.

It's cool that he connects music to life through examples that everyone can understand, the "procrastination" of both Chopin and Hamlet, the "vision" of both Chopin and Mandela. I had a teacher who always noted that music doesn't exist in a vacuum, instead it is reflective of the people's lives. This is a great way of thinking. Since alot of schools are taking the arts out of our schools.People like Zander can stand up for us with this type of information.
It's incredible that people today can identify with and have an emotional response to this piece of music, considering it was written in the early/mid 1800's.You can laugh then, close your eyes and listen to some of the great music of all time.I was amazed to listen to the great music that was coming from the paino. It gave me a clear understanding of my thoughts.