Classical Music

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by music director Andrew Constantine, presented music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Peter Tchaikovsky in the Masterworks Series concert at Purdue Fort Wayne on April 5. The Philharmonic’s final Masterworks Series concert of the 2024-25 season is scheduled for Saturday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. at Purdue Fort Wayne.

Andrew Constantine conducted the orchestra in colorful and exciting music by Alberto Ginastera, J.P. Jofre, Astor Piazzolla, and Manuel de Falla. Johanna Bourkova-Morunov was concertmaster for this concert.

Andrew Constantine conducted the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Clarice Assad, Samuel Barber, and Antonin Dvorak at Purdue Fort Wayne's Auer Performance Hall in the Rhinehart Music Center on Saturday.

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra and members of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth Orchestras, conducted by Andrew Constantine, were both featured in the Jan. 20, performance in the Rhinehart Music Center at Purdue Fort Wayne. The concert included music by Sir William Walton, Jessie Montgomery, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Felix Mendelssohn.

Arts and Culture

The moving night of emotional music in the Masterworks Series highlighted the depth of talent in the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and featured a surprise proposal.

The concert featured just two works: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s violin concerto and Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” (as orchestrated by Maurice Ravel).

WBOI's Classical Connection host Rob Nylund reviewed the ever-popular Patriotic Pops concert held over the weekend at Parkview Field.

Music by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) and George Gershwin (1898-1937) was featured in the Fort Wayne Philharmonic's final Masterworks concert of the abbreviated 2022-23 season, which was also the final concert scheduled by the orchestra for Fort Wayne's historic Embassy Theatre.