HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2018 We look forward to seeing you! Please contact us AFTER 10 a.m. at (516) 256-4209 or any time at (516) 825-2939 EMAIL: Helene: helenespierman@gmail.com Leonard: ljlehrman@nassaulibrary.org ================================== SAT. FEB. 3 7:30 PM ALBA Consort performs music by Lehrman at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 30 Brooksite Dr., Smithtown NY 11787 Contact: www.libaroque.org SUN. FEB. 4 3PM ALBA Consort performs music by Lehrman at Christ Church, 61 E. Main St., Oyster Bay NY 11771 Contact: www.libaroque.org SUN. FEB. 18 7PM Memories & Music of Leonard Bernstein as part of Naturist CaBAREt at Midwinter Naturist Festival, Sunsport Gardens, Loxahatchee, Florida For playlist of excerpts on video, click here. SUN. FEB. 25 ALBA Consort performs music by Lehrman at East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front St., East Meadow NY 11554 FREE SUN. APR. 15 4PM ALBA Consort performs music by Lehrman at 2nd Annual Long Island Early Music Festival Cathedral of the Incarnation, 36 Cathedral Dr., Garden City NY 11530 ________________________________________ "A Weekend With Willard" 3 Free Concerts Honoring the Centennial of Composer J. Willard Roosevelt (1918-2008) Click here for a preview article in The Oyster Bay Guardian, April 20, 2018 FRI. APR. 20 7:00 PM at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, NY FLASH: moved to Oyster Bay High School, 150 E. Main St., due to cold Sagamore Hill Band, Stephen Walker, cond.; Andrew Bolotowsky, flutes; Terry Keevil, oboe; Daniel Hyman, violin/viola; Stephen Gorgone, viola; Kurt Behnke, cello; Betsy Palmedo, soprano co-sponsored by Simon Roosevelt and The Theodore Roosevelt Association Click here for playlist. SAT. APR. 21 4:00 PM at Poquatuck Hall, Orient, NY Elizabeth Palmedo, sop.; Michael Niemann, bar.; Barbara Novick, fl.; Hilary Sperber, cl.; Leonard Lehrman, pno co-sponsored by the Roosevelt Family Click here for playlist. *SUN. APR. 22 at 2:30 PM at Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library 89 E. Main St., Oyster Bay, NY Helene Williams, soprano and The Dakule Trio (Dan Hyman, Kurt Behnke, Leonard Lehrman) also featuring music by Harold Gilmore, Leonard Lehrman, Adele Berk, Albert Tepper, and world premieres by Joel Mandelbaum and Jennifer Tibbetts; co-sponsored by Friends of The Library and The Long Island Composers Alliance Click here for playlist. ________________________________________ *SUN. APR. 29 2:00PM Memories & Music of Leonard Bernstein with Helene, Leonard, and Caryn Hartglass, at Great Neck Library 159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck NY 11023; Tel. 516-466-8055 FREE Click here for playlist. THU. MAY 4 7PM Town Crier Cafe, Beacon NY Pete Seeger 99th Birthday Celebration  Leonard talks about his setting of Pete's "The Stairway" and accompanies Helene in Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" including Pet'e's 4th verse David Amram writes: "Dear Leonard and Helene Thank you for your lifetime of superlative  musicianship, fine compositions and social commitment. And a BIG Todah Rabah to Helene for your brilliant and incisive sing of Both Sides Now After so may years of hearing and enjoying this classic song, i felt last night that i understood it for the first time. Helene's extraordinary interpretation and flawless singing made the vulnerability of the song's creator and the song's message come to life in a whole new way. Hearing her singing the song with your perfect accompaniment, Leonard, made me see and hear what i had been missing. Like hearing Caruso sing Vesti la Giubba or Pablo Casals and Glenn Gould giving their unique versions of Bach, I heard something new last night that I will never forget.  Thank you both. David Amram May 4th 2018 Beacon. N.Y." MON. MAY 14 9PM Bergen, Norway Airport Leonard plays the opening movement of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite #1 in memory of Louis Yaffe who died there 50 years ago, almost to the day. Video by Helene. MON. MAY 21 2:30PM Leonard accompanies Helene in a song by Carl Nielsen at his Childhood Home in Odense, Denmark. Video by Helene. FRI. MAY 25 3PM Leonard accompanies Helene in a Joel Mandelbaum setting of a letter by Brahms at the Brahms Museum in Hamburg. Video by Hans-Otto Jerosch. SAT. MAY 26 6PM Kathryn Wieckhorst sings songs of social consciousness in English & German by Leonard Lehrman & Joel Mandelbaum, et al at Evangelische Lutheran Kirche St. Thomas, Vierländer Damm 1, Rothenburgsort, just outside of Hamburg, Germany. Program includes 2 arias from Joel Mandelbaum's The Village; and Leonard's "Spiele," "Sehnsucht" from Kommt, wir ändern die Welt! and "If I Can't Dance" from E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman. Video by Helene. SUN. JUNE 3 3:00PM Court Street Music Annual House Concert/Student Recital with students Kristian Fajardo, Alexandru Caramihai and Thomas Smith; Daniel Hyman (violin, piano, voice), Kurt Behnke (cello), Helene & Leonard by invitation. Helene premieres Cordelia's Aria from Slonimsky's King Lear in Leonard's translation, and the piano version of Leonard's setting of Alex Skovron's "The Last Word." SUN. JUNE 10 3:00PM Kristian Fajardo and Alexandru Caramihai perform duets by Lehrman & Rothgarber and a solo by Fajardo at LICA Student Concert, Monroe Auditorium, Hofstra University, Uniondale, NY THU. AUG. 2 7:00PM Memories & Music of Leonard Bernstein Naturist CaBAREt at Empire Haven, Moravia NY with LaDonna Allison & Bill Pacer SAT. AUG. 11 10AM Oral History, 8PM Concert including works by Brahms, Bernstein, Feldman, Read, Thompson, Lehrman University of Vermont Summer Music Session Reunion, Southwick Hall, Burlington, VT FREE WED. AUG. 22 4:30-5:30PM Willard Carter, Cellist accompanied by Leonard Lehrman, pianist, in informal concert at Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library, 89 E. Main St., Oyster Bay featuring works by Francoeur, Brahms, Lehrman, and J. Willard Roosevelt *FRI. SEP. 21 2:55PM-4:20PM ALBA Consort concert--cancelled! - see OCT. 14 premiere of Lehrman's setting of Skovron's "The Last Word" (Winner, 2018 NYSCA Long Island Creative Individual Grant) in Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center, Hofstra University *SAT. SEP. 29 2:30PM Memories & Music of Leonard Bernstein--postponed to Nov. 3 due to room renovation! with Helene, Leonard, and Caryn Hartglass at Wantagh Public Library, 3285 Park Ave., Wantagh NY 11793 516-221-1200 FREE *FRI. OCT. 5 7:30PM Memories & Music of Leonard Bernstein with Helene, Leonard, and Caryn Hartglass at Port Washington Public Library, 1 Library Dr., Port Washington NY 11050 516-883-4400 FREE View the video here. *SUN. OCT. 14 4:00PM Alba Consort & Friends at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1579 Northern Boulevard #A, Roslyn Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano; Jack Whritenour, organ Margo Andrea, mezzo, vielle, violin; Carlo Valte, oud; Omri Kochavi, guitar Rex Benincasa, percussion, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, voice includes premiere of Lehrman's setting of Skovron's "The Last Word" (Winner, 2018 NYSCA Long Island Creative Individual Grant) Admission: $20; students, seniors, parishioners: $10 Reservations: 516-621-7925 or info@albaconsort.com Viewable on video here. *SAT. NOV. 3 2:00PM Memories & Music of Leonard Bernstein with Helene, Leonard, and Caryn Hartglass at Wantagh Public Library, 3285 Park Ave., Wantagh NY 11793 516-221-1200 FREE SUN. NOV. 11 6PM Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington St., Newton, MA, time TBA Helene & Leonard perform in Boston on theatrical program commemorating 75th anniversary of visit to Boston by Solomon Michoels Leonard spoke in English, with actress Jean Furman as his "translator" into Russian, and he and Helene both sang a bit of Bernstein, all viewable here. MON. NOV. 12 7PM Makor Jewish Center, 384 Harvard St., Brookline Helene & Leonard perform an entire concert themselves, commemorating 75th anniversary of visit to Boston by Solomon Michoels Admission $25 Tel. 617-771-4870 The entire concert is posted on YouTube here. *SUN. NOV. 25 2:30PM Memories & Music of Leonard Bernstein with Helene, Leonard, and Caryn Hartglass at Long Beach Public Library, 111 W. Park Ave., Long Beach NY 11561 516-432-7201 FREE FRI. DEC. 21 1:00-2:00 PM Leonard Lopate interviews Leonard Lehrman, Helene Williams, and Thomas Smith on WBAI 99.5 FM and wbai.org including excerpts from Hannah, "Conscience," "Love Song" (Mascha Kaléko), Blitzstein's "innocent psalm - for the Bernstein baby" and "The Sound of Freedom" from Siegmeister's I Have A Dream Click here to hear the podcast. MON. DEC. 24 7:00PM Helene sings "O Holy Night" as anthem at Christmas Eve Service, Christ Lutheran Church, Rosedale ===== --Performances are co-sponsored by The Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science, and the Arts, Inc., and co-sponsored by The Maldeb Foundation. * made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.