Show us a musical genius.
Oh gosh! Just one? I mean, there are so many to choose from. Should I go all the way back to Hildegard of Bingen? Mozart? Nah! I think I'll go contemporary and stick with my initial gut reaction to this query. I'm not exactly a voracious concert-goer, but I've been to my share of rock and/or roll shows and without a doubt, hands-down, my favorite all-time concert was David Byrne at the Murat Theatre in September 2001. It was the week after 9/11 and there was some question as to whether the concert would go on at all, but the show went on and he did not even mention the catastrophic events of the week before. And, after a week of being barraged with footage of the attack on the World Trade Towers, the crowd seemed grateful for the chance to come together and forget about it for a few hours. So, yes ... I love his music, I adore his eloquent and erudite observations on everything at www.davidbyrne.com, I admire his support and love of little-known, international musicians, I totally dig his passion for commuting via bicycle and, given his sublime and prolific catalogue of experimental and innovative music, I would say that David Byrne is a musical genius.
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