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  1. Completely awesome. Other people that use the word awesome do not know what the word means. If a dictionary could play video, this could be in the definition of awesome. In fact, I might try and figure out how to embed this video over at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome.

    merlin:

    10,000 Singers - Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement (“Ode to Joy”) (Osaka-jō Hall, 2011)

    What it says on the tin. Ten-thousand (non-professional) Japanese singers, wailing the shit out of some Ludwig Van.

    Pretty amazing.

    Sanity Break: 10,000 member choir sings Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

    In this video from Osaka, Japan, a 10,000 member amateur choir performs the “Ode to Joy” section of Beethoven’s Symphony Number Nine. The concert is an annual event, but this year’s performance — recorded in late December 2011 — was dedicated to the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

    Jump straight to 06:40 if you just want the money shot. But, don’t miss out on some of the wide, crowd shots. It’s shivery.

    Joy, beautiful spark of the gods
    Daughter of Elysium,
    We enter, drunk with fire,
    Heavenly one, your sanctuary!

    2. Source: youtube.com

    Posted 11 months ago 88 notes

    1. thatlovablebastard reblogged this from merlin and added:
      Merry Christmas!
    2. synapsecollapse reblogged this from merlin and added:
      Completely awesome. Other people that use...word awesome do not know what
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      Beautiful. I can hardly say anything else except that it’s worth watching from beginning to end with the volume up.
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    19. htb3 reblogged this from merlin and added:
      Pretty amazing. Sanity Break: 10,000 member choir sings Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
    20. llib reblogged this from merlin and added:
      original German no less. I love Japan. Start at 6:40...see it really take off and read...