(new york times) A young entrepreneur from Long Island announced plans on Wednesday to stage a series of dance-music concerts at the Hammerstein Ballroom this year that will feature surreal projections on the walls of the Manhattan Center’s ornate room.
The series is called “Cosmic Opera” and the headliner for the first concert on Feb. 24 will be Axwell, one of the three disc jockeys in Swedish House Mafia. Axwell will be joined by at least two other electronic musicians during a six-hour show, though those musicians have yet to be named.
The 25-year-old concert organizer Justin Cohen, who is known for having run a successful series of business conferences called the Summit Series, said he had ambitions to change the way people experience electronic-dance concerts, turning them into theatrical events with dreamlike imagery.
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