Hugh Sung's video: How To Run 2 iPad Apps At Once And Why You d Want To

For several years, I’ve been the pianist accompanying various members of The Philadelphia Orchestra in their wonderful children’s program, “Sound All Around”. These delightful mini-concerts are the brainchild of master storyteller and narrator extraordinaire Charlotte Blake Alston, and they combine whimsical stories with musical accompaniments by featured instrumentalists from the orchestra. As such, we need to work closely with a script and a collection of musical fragments provided by the featured musician (along with a healthy dose of crazy improvisations that’s the result of my childhood immersed in too many Saturday-morning cartoons… Inspired by my interview with Newzik co-founder Aurélia Azoulay-Guetta, I’ve been trying to put this sheet music reading app through its paces. As I said in the interview, the ability for me to be able to mark up the music with my Apple Pen while turning pages hands-free with my AirTurn is an absolute game-changer, making my rehearsals so much more efficient! But as we were rehearsing, I found myself resorting to paper copies of the script to keep track of all the musical cues next to my iPad Pro displaying the sheet music. That’s when an “aha” moment struck me: what if I could ask the Newzik developers to come up with a way to show two different PDF files on a single iPad screen? One PDF could be the written script, the other PDF would be the sheet music. What a great feature that would be for musicians working off of a detailed theatrical cue sheet! Then during the bus ride home from the rehearsal, I realized that i was a total idiot!! The latest iPad OS already provides a fantastic new feature for opening two different apps at the same time!! Problem solved - thank you, Apple!! hughsung.com/personal-blog/how-to-run-2-ipad-apps-at-once-and-why-youd-want-to