I used to sing with them, starting in 1966, up till the early 1970s when they became an all-instrumental group. The photograph was taken later than that, showing their spiffy Ren Fair livery.Dorothy Jones Heydt

In the news photo, Uncle Jon says he can identify Tom Conroy standing at the back with a banner. He also remembers , maybe, Jim Aron playing in the orchestra at the opera house much later. And that George Wallace did a great Bullwinkle. --He also heard that there was actually an LP issued from the Consortium, but he never found a copy. He says that Dorothy Heydt became a talented writer, and that she passed from the world recently to the regret of he many friends and admirers.

@wilsonheydt7922

2 ай бұрын

Dorothy died on 28 June 2022. There are downloadable copies of her major writing works on her web site (just do a search on her name and you should find it). We were married in May 1971 and I cannot express how much I miss her.

May I ask who is responsible for posting this? I used to play percussion for the Consortium Antiquum at various concerts and Renaissance Faires in the SF Bay Area in the late 1960 and early 1970s. I had no idea that recordings of any of their music were available. Thanks for this blast from the past. If you have any other recordings I would love to hear them. Their rendition of the pavane "La Bataille" is the best one I've ever heard, and they did a great "Buffins" as well, among other things.

@UncleJimby1

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Aron , Soprano Sackbutt, Trumpet, Recorder. I remember you Earl. The Queen comes at 3.

@earlhartman2486

4 жыл бұрын

@@UncleJimby1 Thanks for getting back to me. There are only two people, other than Ron and his wife, who I remember with any degree of clarity: a very tall and lanky guy with dark hair and a beard (and glasses, I think) who played the sackbutt, and another sackbutt player whose name I don't remember but who I remember from his comic persona in the Brass Band, "Fritz Frumheimer", who was famous for his "triple fingerrrrrr-ing". Purely by chance I saw the Brass Band on the Gong Show a long time ago and I was all "Hey! I remember those guys!" Another person I remember was a drummer named Louis. I only remember him because he was very lod and very strange and had a big moustache. Are there any other recording of the Consortium's music? I remember all of the dance music, primarily. What do you mena by "the Queen comes at 3?". Sounds like a joke, perhaps harking back to the Ren Faire, but I'm missing the allusion. Anyway, thanks again for the music. Brought back a lot of nice memories.

@UncleJimby1

4 жыл бұрын

@@earlhartman2486 The tall lanky guy is George Wallace and Fritz Frumheimer is Johannes Mager. both were also in the final iteration of The Brass Band along with me and Bob Jennings (sackbutt) and Bob Leach. Unfortunately, there are no other recordings of the Consortium Antiquum that I know of. At the Queen's Show at the the Ren Faire, a crier would bellow, "The Queen comes at three" (3 o'clock) at which point we (the band) would yell, "The Queen comes in quarts!" I never understood how we got away with stuff like that.

@earlhartman2486

4 жыл бұрын

@@UncleJimby1 Have you checked with KQED or KPFA? I'm pretty sure we did a show at both places. I disticntly remember KPFA and I seem to remember KQED or some TV interview/performance we did. I remember it because Ron wore the big floppy Ren Faire hat and it completely overshadowed his face. On the monitor his face was completely dark. Probably too long ago for there to be any record of it, though. I mean, it's 50 years ago now! But it wouldn't hurt to ask, I suppose.

@UncleJimby1

4 жыл бұрын

@@earlhartman2486 I did find references to those performances online, but not the actual performances. Too far back in time for that.