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Even Happy Birthday has a dark side: my quest to tell the history of the world in 50 pieces of music ⊕⊕

found 2025 › Dec › 17 (Wed) @ 16:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

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Ode ■■
Joy ■■
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Leningrad ■■
Earth ■■

The Nazis adopted Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Happy Birthday hides a tale of corporate greed. And Putin uses Shostakovich’s Leningrad symphony as a call to arms. That’s why I put them in my soundtrack to…