Despite the fact that several years have passed since the devastating Hurricane Katrina that devastated the city of New Orleans, the reconstruction works continue. Apple, which always tries to help financially in any disaster caused by nature anywhere in the world, has once again shown its commitment.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple announced that the company make a donation of computer equipment, including specific software for the Ellis Marsalis Music Center, a music center that was founded after Hurricane Katrina, after visiting the facilities last weekend.
Music and food are the soul of New Orleans. Love seeing the gumbo of arts, learning and technology at the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music where community becomes family. pic.twitter.com/YDk100ZZ3q
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) May 18, 2019
During the visit, Tim Cook met with the founder of this center, Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, and with actor and musician Harry Connick Jr, who collaborated in the founding of this school in 2011. The center is located in the neighborhood Upper 9th Ward of the city of New Orleans, a neighborhood known as Musicians Village, It has also become a meeting place for the community.
The performance hall, with capacity for 170 people, offers a special acoustic engineering that was built thanks to donations raised after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Tim Cook attended a student update and posted various photos of the event on his Twitter account.
It is likely that part of the reason that prompted Tim Cook to make this donation, in addition to those that characterize the company's generosity, is due to the fact that all the equipment available at this music school, despite being iMac, these are controlled via non-Apple keyboards and mice as we can see in the images that Tim Cook himself published on his account. Also, if you look closely, some models are a few years old (iMac in the background of the second photo).
