In his oddly understated way, David Byrne is one of the most electrifying musicians of the last 50 years.

Since he began experimenting with the idea of what a concert can be with Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense” tour in 1983, few artists have done such big things in such a low-key way, or innovated in ways that seem so obvious but are still more or less unprecedented — like nine musicians taking the stage one at a time, or bringing a mini living room onstage in “Stop Making Sense”; or having the entire band mobile and in constant motion with his career-spanning “American Utopia” show at the end of the last decade.

Indeed, “Utopia” is an extremely tough act to follow, and obviously at 73 Byrne is no longer the rubber-limbed performer that he was four decades ago. But the “Who Is the

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