HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2006 We look forward to seeing you! Please contact us AFTER 10 a.m. at 516-256-4209 or 516-626-0238 EMAIL: Helene: helenespierman@optonline.net Leonard: ljlehrman@gmail.com ================================== Leonard's translation of Chabrier's opera Une Education Manquée (An Incomplete Education) commissioned by The Bronx Opera Company premiered, on a double bill with Dido and Aeneas by The Bronx Opera Company SAT. JAN. 14 8:00 PM & SUN. JAN. 15 2:00 PM at Lehman College's Lovinger Theatre in the Bronx FRI. JAN. 20 2:00 PM & SAT. JAN. 21 2:00 PM at Heckscher Theater - 1230 5th Ave. at 105th Street in Manhattan SUN. JAN. 15, 2006 3:00 PM Long Beach Public Library Concert*: Mozart on Martin Luther King Day honoring the Jan. 15 birthdays of Martin Luther King (1929) and Elie Siegmeister (1909) and the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Jan. 27) with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman and members of the Christ Church Babylon Choir, Temple Isaiah of Great Neck Choir, and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus featuring settings of Langston Hughes & James Baldwin by Elie Siegmeister, Jay Anthony Gach, & Leonard Lehrman (co-sponsored by The Elie Siegmeister Society) 111 W. Park Ave., Long Beach, NY Information: 516-432-7201 FREE SUN. FEB. 5, 2006 2:00 PM North Merrick Public Library Concert*: Concert honoring the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Jan. 27) with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman and guest artist Ben Spierman 1691 Meadowbrook Rd., North Merrick, NY Information: 516-378-7474 FREE SUN. FEB. 12, 2006 3:00 PM postponed to SUN. FEB. 26, 2006 3:30 PM Great Neck House Concert* FRI. FEB. 17, 2006 8:00 PM Blitzstein Bio-Bibliography Book Party & Concert** with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman PeaceSmiths Forum, United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway (Rt. 110), Amityville Tel. 631-798-0778 SUN. FEB. 26, 2006 3:30 PM [postponed from SUN. FEB. 12, 2006] Great Neck House Concert* honoring Lincoln's (197th) Birthday, Mozart's (250th) and Black History Month with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman and members of the Christ Church Babylon Choir, Temple Isaiah of Great Neck Choir, and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus featuring settings of Langston Hughes & James Baldwin by Elie Siegmeister, Jay Anthony Gach, & Leonard Lehrman 14 Arrandale Rd., Great Neck; Tel. 516-487-7665 FREE SAT. MAR. 4, 2006 8:00 PM New York Composers Circle concert at St. Peter's (Chelsea), 346 W. 20th St., Manhattan Helene & Leonard will perform Jacob Goodman's "Three Yiddish Songs" For further info: 212-787-8309 TUE. APR. 11, 2006 7:30 PM Memorial to Paul Avrich, presented by Libertarian Book Club at The Brecht Forum, 451 West St. NYC Leonard performs his Overture to E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman SAT. APR. 29, 2006 2:00 & 5:00 PM Propaganda Cabaret Prospect Theater Company at West End Theatre, 263 W. 86th St., Manhattan includes Leonard's song "Threescore Years Ago" THU.-FRI. MAY 11-12 after 12 Midnight "Radio Unnameable," Bill Propp, producer, on WBAI 99.5 FM & wbai.org featuring discussion with Leonard Lehrman Lehrman & Susan Blake of The Booby Trap or Off Our Chests THU.-FRI. MAY 18-19 after 12 Midnight "Radio Unnameable," Bill Propp, producer, on WBAI 99.5 FM & wbai.org featuring discussion of & excerpts from The Booby Trap or Off Our Chests FRI. MAY 19, 2006 8:00 PM The Booby Trap or Off Our Chests** by Leonard Lehrman & Sydney Ross Singer, based on Singer's A Little Breast Play with new songs based on his The Doctor Is Out starring Helene, with Susan Blake, Cary Bair, and Leonard at the piano PeaceSmiths Forum, United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway (Rt. 110), Amityville Info 631-798-0778 Telecast: THU. OCT. 12 & THU. OCT. 19 1-2 AM Woodbury Cable Channel 20 TUE. MAY 23, 2006 2:00 PM Blitzstein/Bernstein Cabaret* with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman at Bethpage Public Library, 47 Powell Avenue, Bethpage NY Info: 516-931-3907 SUN. JUNE 4, 2006 10:00AM Pentecost service at Christ Church Babylon includes the singing of Leonard's setting of Karen Euler's "The Piper," with flutist Nancy Hemendinger FRI. JUNE 9, 2006 8:30 PM Harvard Class of 1971 35th Reunion Showcase Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Helene performs Leonard's "Threescore Years Ago" Rick Wilson conducts chorus in Leonard's "Hold Fast to Dreams" and "The Purple Couch" SAT. JUNE 10, 2006 2:30 PM Symposium on 21st Century Music Cabot Hall, Radcliffe Quad, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Leonard performs his Overture to The Booby Trap SUN. JUNE 11, 2006 11:00 AM Helene & Leonard perform Songs of Social Consciousness together with Cantor Charles Osborne at Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Boston Info: 617-484-4909 SAT. JUNE 17, 2006 3:00 PM Fourth Annual Court Street Music Recital of Our Students at our home, 33 Court Street, Valley Stream, NY featuring Jasmine Choi, Zachary Gershon, Christopher & Karen Gustave, Ron Kuriloff, Ijeoma Merenini, and Denise Panucci, in works by Gustave, Lehrman, Mozart, Musorgsky, Rossini, Schmidt, Siegmeister, and [David] Weber MON. JUNE 19, 2006 6:30 PM National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case Annual Meeting Helene sings Edith Segal's "My Loved One" at The Brecht Forum, 451 West St. NYC FREE. Info: 212-242-4201 or 917-846-6721 or visit http://rosenbergtrial.org SAT. JUNE 24, 2006 8:00 PM Our Israeli Debut Concert including works of Blitzstein, Lehrman, and others in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino at the home of Prof. Moshe & Yael Ron, Derekh Hayam 29, Haifa Tel. 972 - 4 - 8387280 SAT. JULY 1, 2006 9:00 PM repeat of above concert at FELICJA BLUMENTAL MUSIC CENTER & LIBRARY 26 Bialik St., Tel Aviv. Tel: 03-6201185 Naturist Songs "en franglais" FRI., AUG. 11 7:00 p.m. at the Eastern Naturist Festival, Empire Haven, Moravia NY Info: (315) 497-0135 FRI., AUG. 18 7:30 p.m. at the Eastern Canadian Naturist Festival, La Pommerie, Québec Info: (450) 826-4723 Go to OMTSIGofTNS'History.html for a history of The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group Lehrman Anthems sung at St. George's Episcopal Church, Hempstead: SUN. OCT. 1 Hold Fast to Dreams (Langston Hughes) SUN. OCT. 8 The Stairway (Pete Seeger) SUN. OCT. 22 We Wish You Peace SUN. OCT. 29 Conscience (Abel Meeropol - honoring the 20th anniversary of his death) SUN. DEC. 10 4:00 PM What Shall I Give Him? (Christina Rossetti) --performed by the Jr. Choir & Bell Choir, along with John Martin's Ceremony of Candles SUN. OCT. 22, 2006 3:00 PM Second Avenue Comes to Canarsie at Temple Emanuel of Canarsie, 1880 Rockaway Parkway Info: (718) 251-0450 Adm. $10 in advance; $12 at the door WED., OCT. 25, 2006 3:00 PM [postponed from Oct. 2005] A Jewish-American Oktoberfest: A Yiddishe Momme in Wagner's Backyard at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, University Center, Majestic Palm Room Info: (561) 461-2332 FRI., OCT. 27, 2006 7pm An Autumn Naturist Cabaret Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman at Sunsport Gardens, Loxahatchee, Florida SUN. NOV. 12, 2006 3:00 PM Music in honor of Joel Mandelbaum's 75th Birthday** featuring the world premieres of Elie Siegmeister's setting of Kim Rich's "Outside My Window," and Joel Mandelbaum's setting of his own "Letter to Jewish Week" Concert at PeaceSmiths, First United Methodist Church, 25 Broadway (Rt 110), Amityville Tel. 631-798-0778 ===== --Performances are co-sponsored by The Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science, and the Arts, Inc.-- *This program is made possible in part with public funds from the N.Y. State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered by the L.I. Arts Council at Freeport. **Co-sponsored by Maldeb Foundation.