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Following 8-Hour ‘Sleep’ Project, Composer Max Richter’s Latest Album Presents ‘Music as a Place to Think’

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Jon Burlingame Leave it to British composer Max Richter to find a way to apply the language of classical music to today’s most compelling human concerns.“All Human Beings,” released today, is the first track off his new Decca album “Voices” (due July 31).

It opens with the voice of Eleanor Roosevelt reading the preamble to the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then segues to actress Kiki Layne (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) intoning: “All human beings are born free and equal, in dignity and rights.

They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of community. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind.

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