May 3, 2025
PHOTO PROVIDED Mitzi Burget, Williamsport Music Club scholarship chair, left, presents the 2025 Budd Memorial Scholarship to Lucas Bower.
The Williamsport Music Club awarded the 2025 Budd Memorial Scholarship to organist Lucas Bower, a senior at St. John Neumann Regional Academy during the club’s April Gala at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church.
According to a news release, the $1,500 scholarship is awarded annually to a Lycoming County high school senior planning to continue their education in music and is supported by the generosity of the club and its generous patrons.
After an evening of solo and duet highlights from the Williamsport Music Club’s 2024-25 season and a musical puppetry performance by Kingdom Kidz of Watsontown, Bower brought the program to a finale with his rendition of the hymn, “Lord, Let at Last Thine Angels Come,” arranged by Richard Gore. Bower is a student of Jeffrey Johnson and plans to attend Lycoming College this fall to study business and music.
In honor of National Music Week and to support the Williamsport Music Club’s scholarship fund, the club will host a “community night” fundraiser at Hoss’s Family Steak and Sea House in Loyalsock Township on May 6. If you would like to help the club’s mission to “keep music alive for the future,” contact a member of the club to participate at www.williamsportmusicclub.com.
The next monthly concert for the Williamsport Music Club will feature music from the Broadway stage, the news release said. Songs from West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast, Gypsy, Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Technocolor Dreamcoat, Porgy and Bess, Starlight Express and Hairspray will span the evening of music.
Featured performers will include David Koskey on organ and piano, Jamie Chambers and Denise Clark on a flute duet, vocal solos by Wayne Harris, Nathan Fulkerson and Nick Biddle, Jamie Chambers on flute accompanied by Theo Lentz, Diane Thomas and Wayne Harris as a vocal duet, Jon and Leigh Haley on guitar, vocals and violin and Adam Wright, David Koskey and Rob Wozniak as a saxophone, piano and drums trio.
Throughout the program, audience members will be challenged to guess Broadway tunes through a mystery game led by David Koskey on piano and Rob Wozniak on drums, the news release said. This theatrical music journey, narrated by Bonnie Seltzer and Tom Ruhl, begins at 7 p.m., May 27, at the Pine Street United Methodist Church, 441 Pine St., Williamsport. Admission is free.
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