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The gray November sky outside the windows provided the only light in John McIntyre's classroom in the Conservatory of Music at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College.

The dimness allowed his music history students to see a PowerPoint display on legendary German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The ambiance clashed with the colorful stories and quips delivered by McIntyre, a tall guy with wavy hair and a dark suit. When a snippet of Beethoven's 9th Symphony (the 2nd Movement) hummed through the stereo system in the room, McIntyre said, "People my age will remember this as the theme to the 'Huntley-Brinkley Report.'"

Then he grinned, knowingly. That NBC nightly newscast ended in 1970, long before these students were born.