During the summer, much of my interest and efforts are spent in Fountain Park with the Summer Music Series.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the Niswonger Performing Arts Center gets cleaned up and preparations are busily being made for another fresh season to come in September.\u00a0 But just as the National Football League starts its pre-season schedule in the summer, we will have a little pre-season of our own at the NPAC.\u00a0 There are actually two events I want to make everyone aware of and we will call them our pre-season NPAC schedule.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, July 14, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic will present a concert of one of the most spectacular and well-known symphonies of all-time: Beethoven\u2019s Ninth<\/em>.\u00a0 Many consider it the greatest piece of music ever written.\u00a0 It is a spectacular piece of music that is tremendously powerful and moving, combining a huge chorus with a full symphony orchestra and four vocal soloists.\u00a0 It is the last of his symphonies he wrote and is even more amazing that it was composed after he had lost his hearing!\u00a0 \u00a0The last movement is the one everyone recognizes as the chorus joins in with \u201cOde to Joy.\u201d<\/p>\n To hear a live performance of Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony is an incredible experience that everyone should have at least once in their lifetime.\u00a0 For us to offer it here in Van Wert at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center is a feat most could only ever dream of.\u00a0 We appreciate the Fort Wayne Phil for the opportunity of hosting this very special concert.\u00a0 It will be performed the night before outdoors at the Foellinger Theatre in Fort Wayne and then on Saturday it will be moved indoors to the air-conditioned Saltzgaber Music Hall with its outstanding acoustics.<\/p>\n