Smoke on the Yangtze



I like it better than the original. I wonder if the orchestra knows the history of Deep Purple's version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_on_the_Water

The song is actually doubly ironic in a metaphorical sense, i.e. the environmental catastrophe that will ensue when the Three Gorges dam floods most of the Yangtze in 2009, and the Japanese invasion of China during World War II.

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