No matter what music we get today in London--McCartney? Coldplay? Susan Boyle?--it can't possibly top the truly one and only universal anthem, Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," oft-heard at such ceremonies, most memorably at Nagano for the close of the Winter Games. (Yes, I've co-authored a book on the worldwide cultural and political influence of Beethoven's Ninth.) Here's Part II of the Nagano opus with thousands joining in:
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