Even Happy Birthday has a dark side: my quest to tell the history of the world in 50 pieces of music ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
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…