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The London Symphony Orchestra Teams With Kaltura to Provide Online Video Features
The Orchestra Will Use Kaltura's Open Source Online Video Platform to Share Performances With Its Global Web Audience, and to Conduct Online Classes for Students in the LSO Discovery Education Program
| Source: Kaltura
NEW YORK, NY and LONDON--(Marketwire - August 20, 2009) - The London Symphony Orchestra, one
of the world's leading orchestras, has partnered with Kaltura,
(http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the first open source online video
platform, to use online video for a wide range of the orchestra's
activities and programs.
"In today's day and age, online video is really a must for any serious
player in the music and entertainment world," said Joanne Johnson, Online
Marketing Manager at the London Symphony Orchestra. "Kaltura's platform was
really the only option for us due to its flexibility and wide breadth of
functionality that enables us to launch both 'basic' video publishing
features as well as advanced interactive features for online-education and
training purposes."
The Orchesta's global audience can now watch interviews with players and
conductors as well as enjoy behind the scenes footage on lso.co.uk, powered
by Kaltura. The Orchestra plans to soon use Kaltura's online video
platform to broadcast select concerts and to conduct video classes online.
Kaltura's interactive features will also be included in 'Remix the
Orchestra,' part of the LSO's community and education program LSO
Discovery, in which students would be able to remix the Orchestra's CDs and
videos.
"It's an honor to be working with a leading musical powerhouse such as the
London Symphony Orchestra," said Ron Yekutiel, Chairman and CEO of Kaltura.
"We were delighted to find a team of true innovators and influencers with
out-of-the-box ideas and plans to not only publish video, but also to
contribute to society and get people involved with forward-thinking
programs. This is a great example of the real power of interactive online
video."
About The London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is widely regarded as one of the world's
leading orchestras. Its many activities include an energetic and
ground-breaking education and community program, a record company (LSO
Live), and exciting work in the field of information technology. Over a
century after it was formed, the LSO still attracts the best players, many
of whom also have flourishing solo and chamber music careers. The LSO also
draws on an enviable roster of soloists and conductors, starting with
Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev, LSO President Sir Colin Davis, and
Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas as Principal Guest Conductors. LSO
St Luke's, the UBS and LSO music education centre on Old Street, continues
to expand its artistic program with top artists from diverse musical
backgrounds, and LSO Discovery is facilitating music education using new
technology, and building stronger links with the local communities. LSO
Live is the
best-selling orchestral own-label in the world and is regularly No. 1 in
the classical downloads charts on iTunes. Continuing the orchestra's long
association with film music, the LSO has recorded soundtracks for "Star
Wars: Revenge of the Sith" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." The
orchestra also features on radio, TV, computer games and in-flight music
programs. For more information, visit http://lso.co.uk.
About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With
more than 35,000 active publishers, Kaltura's flexible framework empowers
any site with advanced video functionality. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's open
source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as
downloadable packages for leading platforms -- such as Drupal, WordPress,
MindTouch, Moodle and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid
services including maintenance, support, integration, professional
development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and
aggregation of related third party services. Since its public launch, New
York-based Kaltura has won numerous awards, such as Microsoft and
TheMarker's 'Most Promising Start-up in Israel' for 2009, TechCrunch40
People's Choice award, Mashable's 'Open Web' award, AlwaysOn's top 250
global company and top 100 media company awards, and TV Week's 5 Video
Startups to Watch in 2009. For more information, visit www.kaltura.com.