Originally released in 2010 by British artist Example as part of his second album cycle, “Two Lives” arrives at National Sawdust in a recontextualized, live classical setting. This program treats the song less as a chart artifact than as material to be arranged, voiced, and debated onstage, with performers including Kelly Zutrau, Buddy Ross, Frank Ocean, and Haim. No specific NYC premiere history is documented for this piece, but its presence here reflects a local habit of translating pop repertoire into contemporary concert language. The result underlines how authorship can shift when the room, not the recording, becomes the reference point.