Through a local partnership between First Church Williamsport, Saint John’s School of the Arts, and Lycoming College, the Renew Arts Academy in Williamsport is now accepting applications for its inaugural, week-long summer arts experience, July 13-18. Middle school students entering grades 6–8 can participate as commuters, while high school students entering grades 9–12 and recent graduates have the option to either commute or stay on campus. All participants will have the opportunity to explore music, art, and dance in a dynamic, faith-filled environment—offered at an affordable cost.
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 7:30 P.M.
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Lycoming College’s ninth annual Music Gala, Sunday, April 14, at 4 p.m., at Williamsport’s historic Community Arts Center, will showcase works from the Lycoming College choir, band, and orchestra, as well as from the Lycoming College Community Orchestra (LCCO). This year’s Gala will add a new element with the addition of choral students from high schools across the region. The event is free and open to the public.
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Join Lycoming College Community Orchestra at the beautiful Community Arts Center in downtown Williamsport for an evening of trick-or-treating and musical fun for the whole family! The College’s Halloween Spectacular is slated for Saturday, Oct. 28, and is free and open to the public.
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Lycoming College welcomed several new faculty members to campus for the 2023-24 academic year, bringing a breadth of knowledge to classrooms at the nationally-recognized liberal arts and sciences institution.
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The Lycoming College Community Orchestra (LCCO) is slated to perform a concert of beloved arias and overtures from operas on Friday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., at Williamsport’s Community Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public.
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" 'This magnificent facility will stand here and generations and generations of Lycoming College, students, faculty, alumni and members of the community will make music.' With those promising words, Kent C. Trachte, 15th and current Lycoming College president, humbly expressed his gratitude at the formal dedication ceremony Friday night of the new music center named in his honor on the campus of Lycoming College in Williamsport."
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"Music education and study has been a two-century-old tradition at Lycoming College. During the formal dedication of the Trachte Music Center on Friday, administrators and faculty reminisced on the history of music at the private liberal arts institution of higher learning and how the new facility is envisioned to meet or exceed expectations."
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Lycoming College's Chip Edmonds and William Ciabattari discuss the opening of the new Trachte Music Center and how it will positively impact the study of music on campus.
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"Lycoming College opened the doors Friday night for the newly constructed $8.5 million Trachte Music Center."
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Lycoming College invites the Williamsport community to a spectacular musical celebration of the legendary world's fairs at a performance of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra (PRO) on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m., at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport. MEET ME AT THE FAIR!: Music from the Great "World's Fairs" will include musical pieces from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. General admission tickets are available for $20, and can be purchased by visiting https://www.caclive.com/.
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Lycoming College is pleased to welcome eleven faculty members to its community this fall, bringing with them extensive knowledge and experience in their fields. With ecocriticism on the theatre stage, operatic styles in the music hall, Anglo-modernism in literature, expertise in stellar evolution, and more, these professors will enrich the classrooms at Lycoming College.
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Continuing the legacy established by the Williamsport Community Concert Association (WCCA), Lycoming College hosted a celebration of the merger of the two organizations at the Williamsport Community Arts Center’s Capitol Lounge on Thursday evening.
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The three lead donors of Lycoming College’s new music building announced they will name the facility the Trachte Music Center, in honor of the College’s 15th and current president, Kent C. Trachte, Ph.D., and his spouse Sharon R. Trachte, Ph.D. Current and emeritus trustees Peter ’69 and Joyce Lynn, Dan Fultz ’57, and Stan ’80 and Jolene ’80 Sloter, each worked closely with President Trachte over the course of his nine years as president. They have named the building in recognition of the Trachtes’ leadership, contributions to the College and community, and love and appreciation for music.
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