Beethoven is Hot

For this bulletin board I use a black background and place a photo of Beethoven in the middle. Before I hang the photo I burn part of the edges around it. (Be careful, I had to do several before I got it right! :-)) Behind his photo I make little contruction paper flames. Around his photo I place little flames with info about his life and his career, the name of a movie about Beethoven, the address of a Beethoven website, and so on. Underneath the photo I post a Beethoven quote in letter that look like they are on fire. (Some graphics programs or font editing programs have this; if you don't have one of those have a talented student do the lettering for you.) My favorite quote to use is:

"Music should strike fire from a man!" -Beethoven

I use a book called Dictionary of Musical Quotations by Ian Crofton, Donald Fraser for great musical quotes.