by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org

• Beethoven 9th app includes performances as well as the 1825 manuscript with Beethoven's own annotations. There is a review here

• New York Times Article: The Big Five Orchestras No Longer Add Up

• iPads everywhere: Apple Wins $30 Million Contract for L.A. School System. That's 35,000 iPads.

• Not to be out done by the West Coast, Miami-Dade School District ponies up $63 Million for 150,000 assorted digital devices.

• The Middlesex School's Summer Reading for Parents: 7 Books Not to Miss
  

• Boston Globe: What a Little Chaos Does for Music

• Working on curriculum this summer? Check out Apple's Education Resources Page

• Learn something new or simply have something to watch/listen to while traveling from iTunes U(all free):

• Learn how to make an iPad app: iOS Game Development

• The Language of Music: Music History

• Easily the best lecturer I've ever heard: Paul Bloom's Psych 110 course from Yale