Richard Lee & Bass Guitar

Richard Lee and Bass Guitar

I play bass guitar for fun. (Thanks to my wife for the surprise birthday present several years ago.)

I hadn't been playing bass much recently, but did play at an "Open Mic" at the Omni Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on December 2nd, 2007. Don Steinkraus, Jane Stitt, and I played:

"A Morning Song" by Jane Stitt and
"Peace Will Come" by Tom Paxton.

I played bass in the pit orchestra for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a Sondheim musical. University Theater at the University of Arkansas. Performances April 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 2004 at 8:00 p.m., April 18, 25, 2004 at 2:00 p.m.

I played bass for the concert of the Arts Center of The Ozarks Chorale on Friday, October 19, 2002 at the Arts Center of the Ozarks. I played on:

Everything's Coming Up Roses (Sondheim/Styne)
Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin/Gershwin)
How Long as This Been Going On? (Gershwin/Gershwin)
Bosom Buddies (Herman)
On the Street Where You Live (Lerner/Lowe)
Show Me (Herman)
How to Handle a Woman (Lerner/Lowe)
Impossible Dream (Darion/Leigh)
Man in the Moon (Herman)
Oklahoma (Rogers/Hammerstein)
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (Rogers/Hammerstein)
Tomorrow (Strouse/Charnin)
Embrace me (Gershwin/Gershwin)
Do-Re-Mi (Rogers/Hammerstein)
Edelweiss (Rogers/Hammerstein)
The Sound of Music (Rogers/Hammerstein)
You'll Never Walk Alone (Rogers/Hammerstein)
June is Bustin' Out All Over (Rogers/Hammerstein)
Cabaret (Kander/Ebb)

I played bass for "An Evening of International Cabaret and Music Theater," Friday October 4, 2002, 8 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Concert Hall of the University of Arkansas. I played on:

A Little Night Music Overture (Sondheim)
Now (Sondheim)
Not a Day Goes By
You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Another Hundred People
O Happy We
It's The Hard-Knock Life
I am So Easily Assimilated

I played in the mass bands (5 p.m. and 8 p.m.) at St. Thomas Aquinas parish, starting in 2001 until 2005 or so.

I played in the pit band for Lucky Stiff put on through the University of Arkansas drama department Performances were July 26, 27, 31 & August 1 - 3, 2002 at 8 p.m, and July 28 & August 4, 2002 at 2 p.m.

Pit band for Lucky Stiff

I played in the CYM band at St. Joseph Church from 1999 through 2002.

I played in the folk (bluegrass) choir band at St. Joseph Church from about 1999 through 2001.

Bass guitar is not my only or main musical outlet. My main musical outlet is the Gregorian Schola, a Gregorian chant choir which I direct. I am also in the Ozark Chamber Singers.

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Richard Lee, rlee@.uark.edu, last modified: 3 December 2007