Rob Nylund
Host, Classical ConnectionRob Nylund is the host of WBOI's Classical Connection every Saturday evening from 6 to 8 p.m.
He is a retired Imaging Processor for Kaman Industrial Technologies. A native of San Francisco, California, Nylund holds a Bachelor of Arts from San Jose State University in San Jose, California, and a Master of Arts from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne.
He previously was a broadcaster on KSJS in San Jose and WOWO in Fort Wayne.
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Performance focused on Sir Edward Elgar's Falstaff, some music by Beethoven, and a tribute to late Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry. -
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.
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The orchestra performed the works of Chopin and Mozart on the campus of Purdue Fort Wayne.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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WBOI's Classical Connection host Rob Nylund reviewed the ever-popular Patriotic Pops concert held over the weekend at Parkview Field.
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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.
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On Saturday, Oct. 29, in Fort Wayne's Embassy Theatre, Andrew Constantine and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic presented music by Leonard Bernstein, Patrick O'Malley, and Carl Orff.
