Anna Harwell Celenza, Director of Music at Georgetown University’s Program in Performing Arts and Thomas E. Caestecker Chair in Music, talked to Associates in April about The Joy of Listening: Sharing Great Music and Books with Kids. A musician and author of both scholarly works and a series of award-winning children’s books, she talked about bringing children (and adults) a larger awareness of music. Kids, she noted, often listen to music in an isolated environment, with MP3 players and computers, and it is important to share the music with them, ask them how they feel about it, and draw out their impressions. She talked about “generational music,” and that both in popular music and classical music it is not, nine times out of ten, that a child or adult does not like a particular form of music; rather, they don’t understand it. Talking to someone who does love and understand it can often bring new appreciation to new audiences.