In Wednesday’s (6/15) Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Robin Usher writes, “The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has marked its education week with the world’s first iPhone and iPad app for musical education, MSO Learn, which is designed to deliver the orchestra into people’s hands. It allows them to select an orchestral section to hear what it is playing in a live recording of Percy Grainger’s Shepherd’s Hey, as well as individual instruments, using high-quality uncompressed audio. Scottish education expert Paul Rissmann says the app puts the MSO ‘ahead of the game’ because no other orchestra has launched anything as sophisticated. The MSO’s education manager, Bronwyn Lobb, says it allows people to explore different aspects of the orchestra and its members at leisure anywhere in the world. Developed by Outware Mobile, the app uses graphics and audio to illustrate the orchestra’s inner workings.”
Posted June 15, 2011
