COURT HOUSE — Memories of a popular band leader and tuba player in Cape May County will be revived on Sun. afternoon, Dec. 15, at 3 p.m. when the Performing Arts Center of Middle Township hosts a free Christmas concert by the John H. Walter Band.
The 37 piece volunteer band, consisting of professional and amateur musicians from this area, is named after its founder whose love for music first brought the players together in 1996. He died suddenly at the age of 83 on the Cape May Gazebo bandstand park while preparing to open a concert there.
Walter, then a resident of Avalon and a former music teacher and band director in Pennsylvania, also was a songwriter. One of his works is “The Middle Township Bicentennial March.”
For the past seven years the bandleader role has been assumed by Richard Ludwig whose return to the PAC will be a homecoming of sorts. For several years he was the managing director of the performing arts centers center, a music teacher at Middle Township High School and director of its marching band which won a record setting 15 Atlantic Coast championships.
The PAC program, one of 24 performed throughout the year by the band, will feature three singing soloists, Kathy Angela, James Doran and Nate Gable. Popular Christmas songs as well as Broadway selections will be in the repertoire.
The Performing Arts Center is situated at 212 Bayberry Drive, Cape May Court House, one mile east of exit 10 of the Garden Stare Parkway. There is free parking on the premises.
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