Richard Lee and Early Music

I continue to direct and cantor for the Gregorian
Schola -- my main early music outlet.


I'll be singing with the Ozark Chamber Singers in a concert on November 7, 2001 at 7 p.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The program:

GibbonsO Lord, Increase My Faith
ByrdKyrie from Mass for Five Voices
ByrdGloria from Mass for Five Voices
TallisIf Ye Love Me
VictoriaO Magnum Mysterium
TavenerSong for Athene
ByrdSanctus from Mass for Five Voices
ByrdBenedictus from Mass for Five Voices
ByrdAgnus Dei from Mass for Five Voices
ByrdAve verum Corpus
CherweinInto Paradise
BanchieriJubilate Deo

Okay, again it is not all early music, but some of it is: I sang with the Ozark Chamber Singers in a concert on November 12, 2001 at 7 p.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The program:

ParryI was Glad
DurufleFour Motets on Gregorian Themes
MendelssohnHear My Prayer
ThompsonAlleluia
MessiaenO sacrum convivium
VictoriaVere Languores
BoyleThou O God
TavenerSong for Athene

At 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 17, 2000 I was part of a classical guitar quartet performing Pachelbel's Canon in D for a wedding at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas.


On December 24th - 25th 1999, I chanted at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Eureka Springs, Arkansas for midnight mass. I chanted:


On April 22nd 1999 I sang bass in a performance of Haydn's Theresienmesse (Mass in B Flat) and Roland Carter's arrangment of "You Must Have That True Religion" (okay, not early music, but on the program) with the Concert Choir of the University of Arkansas at 8 p.m. at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.


On April 21st 1999 I performed in a concert with Collegium Musicum 8 at p.m. in the Fine Arts Concert Hall of the University of Arkansas.

With Collegium Musicum I performed:

Anonymous,O mitissima (Quant voi) - Virgo - Hec diesvoice
School of Notre Dame (c. 1200),"Domino (Clausula)"(voice)
School of Notre Dame (c. 1200),"Clausula: Domino"(tenor crumhorn)
School of Notre Dame (c. 1250),"Motet: Pucelete - Je languis - Domino"(bass recorder, voice)
Francis Pilkington,"Look, Mistress Mine"(vocal solo)
Maddalena Casulana,"Stavasi il mio bel Sol"(soprano recorder)
Maddalena Casulana,"Morir non puo il mio cuore"(voice (bass))
Francesca Caccini,"Aria of the Shepherd"(alto recorder)

With the Gregorian Schola I performed:


On April 3rd 1999 I chanted "In paradisum" and "Chorus angelorum" at the funeral of Clell McClung at St. Elizabeth's Parish Center in Eureka Springs, Arkansas at 11 a.m.


On March 5th 1999 I performed in a concert of music by women composers for the 10th Annual Northwest Arkansas Women's Festival and Conference, 8 p.m.in the Fine Arts Concert Hall of the University of Arkansas.

With Collegium Musicum I performed:

Hildegard von Bingen,"O rubor sanguinis"(voice (solo))
Maddalena Casulana,"Stavasi il mio bel Sol"(soprano & tenor recorders)
Maddalena Casulana,"Morir non puo il mio cuore"(voice (bass))
Francesca Caccini,"Aria of the Shepherd"(alto recorder)

On February 3rd 1999 I performed at a "Medieval Feast of Fools." (7 p.m. at a private residence)

With Collegium Musicum, I performed:

Chant,"Benedicamus Domino"(solo voice)
School of Notre Dame (c. 1200),"Domino (Clausula)"(voice)
School of Notre Dame (c. 1250),"Motet: Pucelete - Je languis - Domino"(voice, drum)
School of Notre Dame (c. 1200),"Clausula: Domino"(tenor crumhorn)

With Rob Desbien from the Gregorian Schola, I chanted:


I've taken up recorders again. I played recorder with Collegium Musicum for a November 23rd 1998 concert at the University of Arkansas. The concert was at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Concert Hall. (That concert featured, among other groups, my Gregorian Schola.) I played tenor recorder on some pieces and bass recorder on others (neither very well). I also sang a vocal solo.
Maschera,"Canzona"(tenor recorder)
Sermisy, "O doulce amour"(bass recorder)
Dowland, "Flow my tears"(solo voice)
Dowland, "Lachrimae Antiquae"(bass recorder)
Dowland, "Sir John Souch: His Galiard"(bass recorder)

See here for the chant part of the program.


Okay, it isn't early music, but I sang second bass on a performance of Durufle's "Ubi caritas" (based on the chant) at the St. Elizabeth's Parish Center in Eureka Springs, Arkansas at 2:00 p.m. on May 10, 1998. (The "Ubi caritas" link plays a MIDI file of the piece (if you computer is configured for such), not a vocal performance. I created it using NoteWorthy Composer.)
For MIDI files of Gregorian chant (and more), see my MIDI Chant page.
Once again (after a rest of a few years) I'm singing Madrigals. I put together a quartet to perform for the Fayetteville Schools "Gifted and Talented" Program "Renaissance Festival" at Ramey Junior High School here in Fayetteville, Arkansas on February 28, 1998, between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m.

We sang these pieces (some twice, in different locations):

Dowland, "What if I never speed"
Waelrant,"Hard by a fountain"
van der Muelen, "Bowed down with pain and sorrow"
Dowland, "Fine knacks for ladies"
di Lasso,"O eyes of my beloved"
Morley, "April is in my Mistress' face"
Dowland, "Come again! Sweet love"
Dowland, "Now, O now, I needs must part"


On December 12, 1995 at 7:30 in the Fine Arts Concert Hall at the University of Arkansas I sang (and played tambourine) in a performance of Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas."

Okay, I didn't have a big part; I was in the chorus. I did, however, have a small solo.


In 1996 I sang with the Collegium Musicum. The Collegium Musicum of the University of Arkansas, directed by Claire Detels, performed a Palestrina mass, "Dies Significatus." It was performed at St. Joseph's Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas (as a sacred concert) on Thursday, April 18, 1996 at 7:00 p.m. with the Gregorian Chant Schola of St. Joseph's chanting the ordinary. A second performance was on Sunday, April 21, 1996 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Concert Hall at the University of Arkansas (this time without the chant). In both cases recorders (and, at times, brass) accompanied the voices on the Palestrina.


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Richard Lee, rlee@.uark.edu, last modified: 5 November 2003