The kid stays on the podium

There’s something about conducting this kid really gets, although he really should have turned the last page of the score before he thought the piece was over:

Wouldn’t it be nice if more kids this age thought Beethoven was this much fun? And why don’t they, anyway? I wonder what would happen if kids treated Beethoven like dance music? I wonder what would happen if we all thought of Beethoven as being something one could do, rather than something one experienced? Dance, rather than sit quietly?