David Byrne is not a guy who’s frightened by a high bar.

Over a 48-year recording career he’s responsible for two touring shows that are regularly in the discussion of greatest concerts of all-time — Talking Heads’ 1983 “Stop Making Sense” outing, documented in a hit film, and 2018’s “American Utopia,” whose Broadway edition became an HBO special. And on Friday night, Oct. 24, he attended Jon Batiste’s stirring performance at the Fox Theatre, letting it throw down a gauntlet for Byrne to live up to the following night.

And, boy, did he.

Saturday’s hour-and-45-minute production, supporting his latest album “Who Is the Sky?,” was another aural and visual extravaganza that, like “American Utopia,” was more theater piece than standard issue rock concert.

Wholly original in its conception a

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