Musica Antigua de Toledo

An Early Music Performance Group in Toledo, Ohio

c/o Dr. Alice Neff Petersen, Coordinator, 4302 Foxglove Road, Toledo, Ohio 43623
Dr. Petersen: 419-475-6177 - Secretary, Andrea Kissell
Web site manager: David C. Nelson: 419-893-7166


Ticket Sale!!

 $ 1 off on our fall concert:    November 12, 2006.
$ 1 off on our spring concert:       April 22, 2007.
Send us an e-mail to get your code.
 Advance sale offer!!   Purchase a season ticket by October 31, 2007 and save
$ 3 off on our 2007 - 2008 season!

2007 - 2008

Musicke from Dusk to Dawn

In this, our 28th season, we explore the many sides of life represented by the night: the dark,
 foreboding, endings, and sadness, but also glittering lights, stars, entertainment, hopes and
 expectations, new dawnings.  We'll explore love, both honorable and illicit, and we'll visit
 the endings and beginnings of great ages in music, seen as dusks and dawnings.

Season ticket special: $18 ($14 students and seniors, EMA members)
Single concert tickets, in advance: $10  ($8 students and seniors)
(Early Music America members: $9,  $7 students and seniors)
Internet coupon code discount may be added to these other discounts!

Musica Antigua, Epiphany LC, 6/5/07

Portrait at Epiphany Lutheran Church, June 2007; (c) 2007, Musica Antigua de Toledo
 
Series Concert #1  -  The Stars Come Out

 We can look at this topic in various ways.  We will perform music by “star” composers of early ages, as well as composers who were bringing an era to a close--the dusk of an age, and we'll feature musical forms which represent the end of an age.  Many early choral and vocal works have text dealing with the stars, the heavens, night or sleep, which often symbolizes bringing to rest or to an end the suffering of a broken heart.  Some of our performers will be featured as “stars” in certain numbers.  Come and hear the many ways the stars come out in early music!

Sunday, November 18, 2007,  3:30 p.m.

Monroe St. Methodist Church

3613 W. Monroe St. (at South Cove), Toledo, Ohio






 Musica Antigua at Epiphany Lutheran Church

Portrait at Christ Presbyterian Church, November 2006; (c) 2007, Musica Antigua de Toledo

Series Concert #2  -  The Dawning of Ages

The idea of dawn in music can be seen in different ways:  early dawn songs warned illicit lovers to flee before the approaching light.  Various composers created new musical ideas which ushered in new stylistic eras.  Texts about dawn and sunrise had various metaphorical meanings, and spring with its wakening anew of life can be considered a new dawn.  Come and create an new awakening in your life to the varied sounds of music in lives of earlier eras.

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Get  $ 1 off your ticket at the door.

Sunday, April 6, 2008,  3:30 p.m.

Epiphany Lutheran Church

915 N. Reynolds Rd. (between Nebraska Ave. and Dorr St.), Toledo, Ohio

Special Events

We are still in negotiations concerning themes and schedules.

 Watch the news media for details, including this page.

We'll keep you posted of early music performances in our area.

Musica Antigua de Toledo works to recreate the styles and sounds of early European music (mostly pre-1800 CE)
 with as much historical accuracy as possible, using various combinations of voices and period instruments.

We are presenting our music in digital recording as well as live.
Our performance on September 7, 2003 at the Toledo Museum of Art,
 "Ohio's History Through Music," a special presentation for Ohio's bicentennial year,
 is still available on compact disk.
Other recorded performances have been and are being prepared.

In addition to our past concerts, which we have recorded live and are on tape and compact disc,
 we will feature music from several seasons which we have been able to record digitally.
  Season ticket holders will have the opportunity at the concerts to order old and new compact disks at a discount.

Come visit the sights and sounds of more than twenty years of early music in Toledo
 by joining Musica Antigua for the 2007-2008 season! 

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Vocal and instrumental performers
Description of our period instruments
special programs to fit your entertainment, educational, or holiday events.
school programs offered to acquaint children with early music and society, including colonial America.

Website design by David Christian Nelson, last update: September 26, 2007