Alright, I'm back with the photos and videos from my New York experience to supplement what I've already told you about in Part 1.
Lower Manhattan. Home to Wall Street, Ground Zero, and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College - the venue for the 2008 IAM Encounter.
What was behind me in the first picture. This is the building where we all gathered for, listened, watched, and enjoyed the IAM experience.
Just down the street from the Tribeca PAC were some temporary classrooms the College had set up. We used them for specialized workshops for IAM attendees. I'm standing just outside them. You can't see it, but the Hudson River is just across the street to my left.
The theatre where the IAM presentations took place.
Makoto Fujimura, better known as "Mako," is the founder of IAM. Mako is a contemporary artist, famous for his paintings, and was part of a unique art performance at the conference, in which he painted and triggered sounds with the movement of his paintbrush, thanks to an device clipped to the top of the easel that was hooked up to a synthesizer, invented by Jerzy Sapieyevski, who accompanied on the piano. Watch below to see what I mean!
Is that cool or what? You be the judge.
Nigel Goodwin, a British Shakespearean actor, who happens to be a Christian. He was probably the most adored person at the conference. He was a brilliant and well-spoken intellectual. Most of us wished we could've written down every word he said!
Rob Mathes, the composer/arranger I mentioned in Part 1, talks to us about his faith in between songs. Rob has arranged for many famous artists, including Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, Rod Stewart, Lenny Kravitz, Tim McGraw, and more! He played the piano and was accompanied by a drummer and a string quartet for most of the time as he shared a number of his new songs, in which he set old love poems to his own contemporary orchestrated music. Below, though, you can watch a gospel song he wrote and performed with just guitar and drums.
Great song, huh? I loved it. Rob is probably my new "arranging hero!"
My Keynote media director Paul, had never been to New York City before this trip. So we had to show him Times Square at night! Here I am soaking up the neon lights! (Just a few days later, a pipe bomb went off in Times Square ... only a few yards from where I am standing in this photo! If you didn't hear about it, read this.)
One last video for you: these guys are The Varnish Cooks, a bluegrass band from Rochester, New York. They sang several songs for us, including "Rain and Snow," which I'm sharing with you. They sounded terrific in person! The recording doesn't do them justice.
That's all folks! That's all the photos and videos I can fit on here right now. Hope you've enjoyed them. And, in case you missed my journal about it all, be sure to check out Part 1 of my New York experience. See you next time!
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