I was in a pub session in Glasgow on the day that England were playing Germany in the last football world cup. i was surrounded by brilliant young musicians and the folk tunes were really flying. The roars from the TV-football-watching crowd came bombarding up from another bar down below: of course, the Scots were applauding the German goals, as they do here (anyone but England!)
So I played, in slightly satirical mood, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his 9th Symphony on my button accordion. "Oh what was that tune?" I was asked. So I ask, "Don;t they teach classical music at all?"