It's only April, but the silly season already seems to be upon us.
The first sign was the recent announcement by Universal Music's classical department that on June 11 it will release a single titled "Asagohan (Breakfast)," which is a rather unusual a capella version of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Unusual, because the lyrics of this stunningly intricate multivocal arrangement deal with the topic of Japanese food, starting, naturally, with breakfast and moving on through the day with lunch, snacks and dinner. Gochi so, la, tea, dough, as it were.
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