So, you say you like melodies? Putting your priorities there may consign you to minority status among 2025’s wider bloc of pop fans. But for the sonorously starved among us, a bit of manna from a more euphonious heaven has arrived in the form of “What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live in Concert,” a multi-artist outing whose generous setlists are, fortunately, as long-winded as the tour’s title. For anyone nostalgic for a time when a guy who couldn’t sing could become a kind of pop superstar just through his command of chord progressions, it’s about 2 hours and 45 minutes of bliss.
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