Harriet Woldt, retired TCU music professor and former cellist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, has recently donated a baroque cello to the School of Music. The significant gift is intended for the School's Collegium Musicum, an organization for the performance of music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, overseen by Joe Butler (University organist).

 

The instrument, custom-made for Woldt by a former student, will enable TCU students in modern cello performance to study and gain experience in performance practices during the Baroque era (17th and 18th centuries) on a fine instrument and bow set to Baroque standards. Prof. Woldt previously donated her collection of symphony and solo literature to the TCU School of Music for the benefit of its students and the community. TCU students and faculty are greatly indebted to her for these meaningful and inspiring gifts.

 

Collegium Musicum possesses three sets of recorders, a quartet of krummhorns, two shawms, a cornetto, a baroque bassoon, six violas da gamba, one vielle and a lute. The School also owns a clavichord, a single-manual French-style harpsichord, and a two-manual Flemish-style harpsichord, the latter two built by Richard Kingston. The Collegium Musicum is open to music majors and non-majors who share an affinity for early music.