As the microphone conks out in the deluge, she joins the crowd in an impromptu mass rendition of La Marseillaise.
The journey from such autobiographical reminiscences to the mass rendition at Verdi's burial in 1901 was short indeed, and strewn with a thousand easy anecdotes.
In Edinburgh, fireworks lit up the sky above the castle before revellers joined in a mass rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
You can see it all on YouTube: Mandela and his then-wife Winnie happily taking in a great roar of love and support, which at one point segues into a mass rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone.
Even if this is a parallel universe, or a dystopian near-future, it is familiar enough for us to feel that no way would the churchman's grotesque opinions be the only coverage of a mass rendition.
Time and again, both before and after its mass rendition at Verdi's funeral, the parable of Va pensiero has been rehearsed: the composer may, in Nabucco in 1842, overtly have given voice to Hebrew slaves lamenting the loss of their homeland, but they were in secret dialogue with their audience.
Then, before the lights were turned off at Hampden Park, a mass rendition of Auld Lang Syne bid farewell to Glasgow 2014. .
But for me nothing went deeper than the Sunday night at the Concert Hall dedicated to late great member of The Band Levon Helm that featured his daughter Amy, Beth Orton, and some 25 others, climaxing unforgettably in mass renditions of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "The Weight".
For her third solo show, she shakes up her rather too-well-worked-out vocabulary of cartoonish, cascading dots: loading them onto a jagged wall that seems to have been ripped from her studio; turning them into en-mass renditions of Charles Schulz's Snoopy; and in a few uncharacteristic cases, doing without them entirely (Smith).
Of course, it must be said that there are people rioting in the streets in Hong Kong for real democracy, braving tear gas and joining in mass renditions of "Can You Hear the People Sing".
