As Masterworks Chorale celebrates its 50th season, longtime Perrysburg resident Joy Ortyl can look back with pride on having participated in 45 of those 50 years.

The chorale started in 1972, when Rose Mary Locke and her son, Benjamin, invited a few friends over to sing at a house in Toledo’s Old West End. Soon the singers moved to the basement of Bancroft United Methodist Church for Monday evening…