Beethoven’s Ninth on a Spanish Plaza (video)

This will make you smile while we suffer in the heat on the east coast, although it has little to do with history. It is a carefully orchestrated flash mob organized by one of Spain's largest banking groups and already has almost 2,000, 000 views on You Tube. As Trent Gillis observed in his blog, On Being, "the production is lovely and highly produced, but it’s the fascination and pure joy of the passersby that makes the moment quite magical."