With the country under martial law, Veloso would play underground gigs alongside poets and playwrights in Rio de Janeiro, turning concerts into subversive theatrical events.
In "I'm in Love With a Church Girl," Jeff Atkins, the 37-year-old rapper better known as Ja Rule, plays Miles Montego, a drug dealer turned concert promoter.
Consider, in comparison, how Michael Tilson Thomas has turned concert night at the San Francisco Symphony into a cultural must for young and old alike.
September at Bargemusic begins with a musical potpourri aboard the vessel, a former coffee barge turned concert hall that's become one of the most popular places to hear classical music in New York.
Baker, who is currently on a tour through the U.S. and Europe (she played New York's Bowery Ballroom this week, and will play the festival circuit this summer), also turns concert venues into sacred spaces.
115) Pelléas et Mélisande Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra's director Peter Sellars have created stunning versions of Bach's Passions in the last few years, in which Sellars's subtle directorial interventions turn concert hall spaces into places of living ritual.
On a dreary November afternoon, the news bulletins are dominated by the fallout from the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal and predictions of another tough winter in A&E departments but, at LSO St Luke's, a church turned concert hall in Old Street, east London, all is optimism and light.
With his strong theatrical roots, Mr. Tilson Thomas is better positioned to turn concerts into multimedia experiences than many other music directors.
One of rock's most astute conceptualists since the 1960's, he has toyed with the possibilities of his star persona, turned concerts into theater and fashion spectacles, and periodically recharged his songs with punk, electronics and dance rhythms.
ConcertIn, built by past TechCrunch Meet-up pitch contest winner Jan Horna, essentially turns concerts into Facebook events, allowing you and your friends to talk up the Freelance Whales as well as buy tickets to their next concert.
