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1 day ago50 years in, electronic pioneers Cabaret Voltaire still sound prophetic - 48 hills
A new live album and tour frame Cabaret Voltaire’s final shows as a confrontation with aging, memory, loss, and time.
She was taking a break from tech rehearsals for the latest production of one of those shows, "Oratorio for Living Things," at the Signature Theatre. Inspired by, as she puts it, "the three Carls"-Sagan, Orff, and (Carlo) Rovelli-"Oratorio" is a musical meditation, for twelve singers, on time, memory, and what it means to be human on a turbulent planet at the edge of cataclysm.