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
Publicity manager: David C. Nelson:  419-893-7166


Musica Antigua de Toledo - Vocal and Instrumental Performers

We are proud to announce several new vocalists and instrumentalists!  See our list below.

Picture location: Epiphany Lutheran Church, 915 N.Reynolds Rd., Toledo, Ohio
(c) 2007: Musica Antigua de Toledo
Musica Antigua at Epiphany LC, 6/5/07

(left to right, front row):
Kristina Davis: soprano; keyboards, percussion.             
Barbara Neff Craig: mezzo-soprano; (at harpsichord)
 organ, harpsichord, vielle, psaltery, percussion.
Victoria Shutters: soprano; psaltery, percussion  (not active 2007-8).
        
(left to right, back row):     
  Bob Rudolph: alto.                                                          
Sandra Kellogg: mezzo-soprano; recorders, keyboards, harp, viol.
Alice N. Petersen: contralto; director/coordinator;                                      
 violin, vielle, viol, other bowed strings, recorders, shawms, other wind instruments.

David C. Nelson: baritone/counter-tenor; music committee,
 music publisher, computer and language consultant;
lutes, oud, guitar, harp, other plucked strings, viol, percussion.
Andrea Kissell: contralto; secretary; recorders, shawms, krummhorns,
 other wind instruments, percussion.
Andrew Phillips: recorders, reeds  (not active 2007-8).                     
Donald H. Jackson: baritone; music committee;                     
recorders, sackbut, krummhorns, other wind instruments, viol, vielle.
John Greenfield:tenor, lutes.                                           

(not pictured above)
Holly Greenfield: alto; bowed strings.                                

(also not active this year)
Daniel Ferguson: baritone/counter-tenor; language consultant.                        
William Farlee: bass; recorders, violin                                                      
Charles Terbille: reeds, percussion; language and Classical studies consultant
a long-time-ago former member, rejoined us to do a special program of ancient
 Classical music for the Toledo Museum of Art in November 2006.


Although we list our voice types in a modern way, to give listeners some idea of who does what, before the baroque period the human voice was used in a variety of ways, without reference to what we think of today as formal vocal training, and some of our earlier repertoire, as well as the less formal styles of ballad and catch tune, require some unusual sonorities.  From earliest times human beings have imitated the sounds we hear around us.  Our vocalists often sing on a part somewhat different from their "soprano, alto, tenor, bass" labels, and they sometimes imitate one or more of our instruments, or the sounds of birds or animals, where the repertoire calls for it.



Picture location: Christ Presbyterian Church, Sylvania Ave. at Talmadge Rd., Toledo, Ohio
(c) 2005: Musica Antigua de Toledo
Musica Antigua's Voices


(left to right, front row):
Sandra Kellogg: mezzo-soprano; recorders, keyboards, harp, viol.
Victoria Shutters: soprano; psaltery, percussion.                
Barbara Neff Craig: mezzo-soprano; music committee;
 organ, harpsichord,vielle, psaltery, percussion.
  Andrea Kissell: contralto; secretary; recorders, shawms, krummhorns,
 other wind instruments, percussion.
Alice N. Petersen: contralto; director/coordinator;                
 violin, vielle, viol, other bowed strings, recorders, shawms, other wind instruments.

John Greenfield:tenor, lutes.                                
(left to right, back row):
Andrew Phillips: recorders, reeds.                     
Donald H. Jackson: baritone; music committee;
recorders, sackbut, krummhorns, other wind instruments, viol, vielle.
 
Daniel Ferguson: baritone/counter-tenor; language consultant.
William Farlee: bass; recorders, violin                              
David C. Nelson: baritone/counter-tenor; music committee,
 music publisher, computer and language consultant;
lutes, oud, guitar, harp, other plucked strings, viol, percussion.


Posing (May 2005) at Epiphany Lutheran Church, 915 N. Reynolds Road

Musica Antigua at Spring Concert


At Christ Presbyterian Church, Sylvania Ave. at Talmadge Rd., Toledo,,
where we have performed our last two spring concerts and our fall 2006 concert

Musica Antigua at Christ Presbyterian Church

Portrait in September 2004, copyright Musica Antigua de Toledo


With a few of our instruments, in 2005.
Paula Vasko (left front, seated)
 and Bob Rudolph  (center rear)

Musica Antigua with our guest vocalist Bob Rudolph
 
at Christ Presbyterian Church,  Toledo, OH,  March 2004




In our Early American Costumes, for our program, Ohio's History Through Music
Picture location: The American Gallery, Toledo Museum of Art,  2445 Monroe Ave., Toledo, Ohio
(c) 2003: Musica Antigua de Toledo

Musica Antigua at the Toledo Museum of Art, Sept. 7, 2003

front row (from left to right):
Alice N. Petersen: contralto; director/coordinator;
violin, vielle, viol, other bowed strings,
recorders, shawms, other wind instruments.
Paula Vasko  soprano
Kristina Davis: soprano; keyboards, percussion.
Barbara Neff Craig: mezzo-soprano; music committee;
organ, harpsichord,vielle, percussion.
Andrea Kissell: contralto; secretary;
recorders, shawms, krummhorns, other wind instruments, percussion.
  Sandra Kellogg: mezzo-soprano; recorders, keyboards.
(not pictured above, see below)

back row (left to right):
William Farlee: bass; violin, vielle, recorders.
 (by portrait of Admiral Perry)
Daniel Ferguson: baritone/counter-tenor; language consultant.
Donald H. Jackson: baritone; recorders,
sackbut, krummhorns, other wind instruments, viol, vielle.
David C. Nelson: baritone/counter-tenor; music committee,
music publisher, computer and language consultant;
lutes, oud, guitar, harp, other plucked strings, viol, percussion.



Picture location: Epiphany Lutheran Church (before its renovation), 901 N. Reynolds Road, Toledo, Ohio
(c) 2002: Musica Antigua de Toledo

Musica Antigua's vocal performers.
front row (from left to right):
Sandra Kellogg,  Andrea Kissell,  Barbara Neff Craig,  Alice N. Petersen, Kristina Davis,
Kathryn Cendrowski:  (active until 2002).
back row (left to right):
 William Farlee,  Donald H. Jackson,  Daniel Ferguson,  David C. Nelson


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Descriptions of period instruments
Our concert season schedule
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.