Online Videos of Court Street Music Events
[in chronological order, most recent first]
featuring Helene Williams, Leonard Lehrman, and their students:
Aug. 3, 2024 25th Anniversary
Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/20240803CtStM
00 Intro Joel Mandlebaum
02 Dickinson-LehrMandelbaum: Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
03 The Pentatonic Pentateuch
04 Chorale for 2 Pianos
05 Moravec-Shirley: Fall of Leaves +Outro
06 Moravec: Evermore for Vn & Pno
06A Intro Naydus:
07 In the Evening (Borts, arr. & tr. Lehrman)
08 SIMA: Regina's Mea Culpa Aria (Caryn Hartglass)
09 --Yakov's Aria (Ben Pologe)
10 Skovron-Lehrman: Credo+Outro
11 Kim Rich-Lehrman: Poets in Their Own Hometown (Tom Smith)
12 Brahms: Zigeunerlieder #1 (Perri Sussman)
13 Brahms: Zigeunerlieder #2 (Perri Sussman)
14 Brahms: Zigeunerlieder #3 (Perri Sussman)
15 Brahms: Zigeunerlieder #4 (Perri Sussman)
16 Brahms: Zigeunerlieder #5 (Perri Sussman)
17 Brahms: Zigeunerlieder #6 (Perri Sussman)
18 Brahms: Zigeunerlieder #7 (Perri Sussman)
19 Brahms: Zigeunerlieder #8 (Perri Sussman)
20 Brahms: Sapphische Ode (Helene)
21 R.Strauss: VnPno Sonata Mvt 1
22 J.Strauss: Chacun a son gout (FLEDERMAUS) (tr. Lehrman)
23 Arensky: Coquette
24 Schubert: Erlkoenig
25 Osborne: Samachti (Ps. 122; tr. Lehrman)
26 Gross: Tenderly (arr. Lehrman)
27 Lerner-Bernstein: Take Care of This House (Oct. 5, 2018)
28 Intro & Pollitt-Lehrman: The Expulsion
29 Scriabin: Piano Concerto Mvt 1
30 Scriabin: Piano Concerto Mvt 2
31 Scriabin: Piano Concerto Mvt 3
June 2, 2024 Students & Teachers
Click here for Playlist.
01 Sonnet #2 (Eminescu)(Perri)
02 And If (Eminescu)(Helene)
03 Sonnet #3 (Eminescu)(Perri)
04 ES & LJL (Tom Smith)
05 PATIENCE Duet (John & Claudia)
06 DON GIOVANNI Duo (Henry & Alyssa)
07 BALLAD OF BABY DOE: Tabor's Aria (Henry)
08 SIMA: Lyuba's Aria (Alyssa)
09 Faure: Ici bas! (Perri)
10 --Apres un reve (Perri)
11 --Mandoline (Perri)
12 Ned Rorem: Pearls (DAY MUSIC #2) for Vn & Pno
13 Ned Rorem: Bats-Billet Doux (DAY MUSIC #4&5)
14 Noel Coward: Parisian Pierrot (Marc Eliot Stein)
15 --Nina (Tom Smith)
16 --A Room with a View (Marc)
17 --BITTER SWEET: If Love Were All (Helene)
18 Dear Little Cafe (Helene & Leonard)
19 Kiss Me (Helene)
20 Zigeuner (Perri)
21 Where Do I Belong? arr. cello
22 Brahms: Pno Qt #3 Mvt 3
23 Palmer: Pno Qt Mvt 2
24 Brahms: Pno Qt #1 Mvt 4
Nat Lehrman Centennial G&S Singalong, May 26, 2023
Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/NSL100th
01 FINIAN'S RAINBOW: Look to the Rainbow
02 --Something Sort of Grandish
03 Penny Roll (GRAND DUKE)
04 GONDOLIERS: On the Day That I Was Wedded
05 --The Duke of Plaza-Toro
06 PINAFORE: Little Buttercup
07 --A Maiden Fair to See
08 Remember Me (from COCO)
09 For My Father (Dylan Thomas)(June 6, 2021)
10 MIKADO: Daughter-in-law-Elect(July 14, 2002)
11 --Braid the Raven Hair
12 EMERALD ISLE: Murphy's Farewell & Love Duet with Molly
13 --Bunn's Final Song
14 IDA: Intro +Professor's Song (Lehrer, after Gama)(Apr. 9, 2017)
15 PIRATES: Professor Joel Mandelbaum (after Major General)
16 --Nat Lehrman Classic Psychoanalyst (after Major General)
17 --The Elements Updated (Lehrer/Lehrman)(June 1, 2021)
18 Empty Chairs/Killing Me Softly
19 Tchaikovsky (LADY IN THE DARK)
20 Nat Lehrman's Figaro
21 If I Were a Rich Man (FIDDLER)
22 MY FAIR LADY: Why Can't the English?
23 --I Could Have Danced All Night
24 --I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
25 Where Do I Belong? (E.G.)
6 Martha Schlamme Centennial Concerts in 2023
6 Videos of Schlamme [subtitled by Lehrman]:
01 Tumba Tumba (1964)
02 Ach Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (1963)
03 Surabaya Johnny (1964)
04 Pirate Jenny (Blitzstein tr.)(1964-5
05 Tango Ballade (Blitzstein tr.) (1980) with Alvin Epstein
06 Di Mezinke (1983)
6) Sep. 23, 2023 People's Voice Cafe
5) Aug. 20, 2023 LJL 74th Birthday
4) July 30, 2023 Pagan-Fletcher house
3) Mar. 25, 2023 Puffin Cultural Forum
2) Mar.1, 2023 Plattduetsche Home, Franklin Square (also Emily Lehrman Centennial)
1) Feb. 17, 2023 Songs of Love & Social Consciousness, Sunsport
6 Sep. 23, 2023 People's Voice Cafe
Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/20230923SchlammePVC
01 Sally Campbell Intro
02 Everybody Loves Saturday Night
03 Leonard & Belle Intro
04 I'm a Stranger Here Myself (ONE TOUCH OF VENUS)
05 Intro ROUNDHEADS
06 Eisler Nanna
07 Weill Nanna
08 Intro 2 Brecht-Weill Songs
09 You Made Up Your Bed (MAHAGONNY) (Blitzstein)
10 Bilbao (HAPPY END) (Feingold)
11 Intro +Lost in the Stars
12 Intro 2 French Songs
13 I Wait for a Ship (MARIE GALANTE)
14 Sur la Place (Brel)
15 Intro Woman & War
16 So Low (GROWING UP WOMAN)
17 Cruel War Is Raging
18 Eve Merriam Poem
19 Intro SACCO AND VANZETTI
20 Mary Donovan (& Intro Ben Spierman)
21 Intro Weimar
22 Song of Indifference
23 Die Gedanken Sind Frei
24 Abortion Is Illegal
25 Los Cuatro Generales
26 To My Countrymen
27 Intro 2 Comic Songs
28 Sleepless
29 Vodka
30 Intro +Assimilated
31 Intro +Vozhe Vilstu
32 Intro 2 Hirsh Glik Songs
33 Zog Nit Keynmol
34 Shtil Di Nakht
35 Intro & Freylakh
36 Farewell & Farrell
37 Q&A, Finale
5 Aug. 20, 2023 LJL 74th Birthday
For Playlist click here.
00 Welcome Intro
01 A Song to Begin (Aug. 3, 2013)
01-1,2 Barbie Into
01A Barbie Blues (Aug. 10, 2007)
01BC Barna Intro
02 Simple Song# 1
02A 'Twixt Simple Songs
03 Simple Song# 2
03A Intro Naydus
04 In the Evening
04A Twixt Nayduses
05 In der Fremd (May 10, 2013)
05A Borts, Intro Balalaika
06 Tum Balalaika (Aug. 5, 2016)
06A Intro 4 Songs
07 Modest Maid (Blitzstein)(Mar. 8, 2013)
08 I Don't Wanna Rock 'n Roll (Yeston)(Feb. 17, 2023)
09 So Low (GROWING UP WOMAN)(March 25, 2023)
09A Intro Lost in the Stars
10 Lost in the Stars
10A Intro Quarrel Song
11 Quarrel Song (Feb. 17, 2023)
11A Intro MAHAGONNY:
12 You Made Up Your Bed (Blitzstein)
13 Do You Love Me? (FIDDLER)(Oct. 17, 2019)
14 Nannas Lied (Brecht-Eisler)(Nov. 9,2014)
14A Intro Penny Candy
15 Penny Candy (Blitzstein)(Jan. 25, 1989)
15A Intro Sleepless
16 Sleepless (Mar. 25, 2023)
16A Intro LABYRINTH OF LOVE:
17 Look Up
18 Lovers
19 Heart to Heart
20 Love Is A Smith
21 Beyond Passion
22 There Are Times
23 The Door
24 Paradise
24A Intro Assimilated
25 I Am Easily Assimilated (CANDIDE)(Feb. 18, 2018)
25A Intro Marc Eliot Stein
26 Rabbi & Rich Man
26A Intro Carried Away
27 Carried Away
27A Q&A
4 July 30, 2023 Pagan-Fletcher House
Click here for Playlist.
01 Billy Florio Welcome
02 A Song to Begin
03 Intro by LJL
04 Schubert Serenade
05 Intro Margaret Dinzler Shaw
06 Margaret Dinzler Shaw Reading:
07 Misplaced Memories
08 Into Louis Untermeyer:
08A Look Up (Labyrinth of Love #1)
08B Lovers (Labyrinth of Love #2)
08C Heart to Heart (Labyrinth of Love #3)
08D Love Is A Smith (Labyrinth of Love #4)
08E Beyond Passion (Labyrinth of Love #5)
08F There Are Times (Labyrinth of Love #6)
08G The Door (Labyrinth of Love #7)
08H Paradise (Labyrinth of Love #8)
09 Labyrinth of Love #1-8
10 Intro 5 Songs
11 Weill: Lost in the Stars
11A Intro+Lost in the Stars (Mar. 25, 2023)
12 Millay-Mandelbaum: Love Is Not All
12A Love Is Not All (June 3, 2018)
12B Love Is Not All (Feb. 28, 2017)
13 Weill: September Song
14 Bernstein: I Am Easily Assimilated (CANDIDE)
14A I Am Easily Assimilated (Feb. 18, 2018)
15 Ellstein: Oy Momme (arr. Lehrman)
15A Oy Momme (Apr. 6, 2021)
16 Intro Encore
17 Copland: I Bought Me a Cat (arr. Lehrman)
18 Q&A
3 Mar. 25, 2023 Puffin Cultural Forum
Playlist: https//tinyurl.com/20230325PuffinSchlamme
Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrAq44BL5wM&t=3970s
01 Andrew Lee Intro
02 Everybody Loves Saturday Night
03 LJL Intro Schlamme
04 I Am Easily Assimilated
05 Intro Love & War
06 So Low
07 Cruel War Is Raging
08 Eve Merriam Poem
09 LJL Intro Bern-Blitz, SACCO
10 Mary Donovan
11 Intro Belle Linda Halpern
12 Freylakh
13 Vozhe Vilstu
14 Mezinke
15 Intro Hirsh Glik:
16 Zog Nit Keynmol
17 Shtil Di Nacho
18 Dona Dona
19 Intro Solidarity Singers
20 Die Gedanken Sind Frei
21 Los Cuatro Generales
22 Intro Pt 2
23 Sur La Place
24 I Wait for a Ship (MARIE GALANTE)
25 Intro Nannas Lied
26 Eisler: Nannas Lied
27 Weill: Nannas Lied
28 Intro&Lost in the Stars
29 Intro 3 Brecht-Weill Songs
30 You Made Up Your Bed (MAHAGONNY, Blitzstein tr.)
31 Surabaya Johnny (HAPPY END, Feingold tr.)
32 Pirate Jenny (3PENNY, Blitzstein tr.)
33 Intro Weimar
34 Song of Indifference
35 Brecht-Eisler: Abortion Is Illegal
36 Brecht: To My Countrymen
37 Ach Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
38 Final Intro (Helene)
39 Sleepless
40 Vodka
41 Everybody Loves Saturday Night
2 Mar.1, 2023 Plattduetsche Home, Franklin Square
Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/01Mar2023
01 Intro Brenda Alui
02 Intro Belle Linda Halpern
03 A Song to Begin
04 Schubert Serenade
05 Intro+Muss I Denn
06 Nannas Lied (Eisler)
07 Intro 3PENNY:
08 Mackie Messer
09 Pirate Jenny
10 Intro+To My Countrymen
11 Intro MARIE GALANTE
12 I Wait for a Ship
13 Who Will Close the Door (IDIOTS FIRST)
14 Last Night I Dreamed (Eve Merrion)
15 Dat Du Min Leevste Bist
16 Do You Love Me? (FIDDLER)
17 Sleepless
18 Die Gedanken Sind Frei
19 Intro Final Section
20 I Am Easily Assimilated (CANDIDE)
20A Assimilated (Nov. 12, 2018)
21 Dona Dona
21A Dona Dona (Dec. 15, 2014)
22 Carried Away (ON THE TOWN)
22A Carried Away (Dec. 3, 2011)
1 Feb. 17, 2023 Songs of Love & Social Consciousness, Sunsport
Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/20230217NaturistCaBAREt
01 A Song to Begin
01A Intro Schlamme & Brecht
02 To the Yet Unborn (Brecht, tr. Baxandall & Hays)
02A Intro MARIE GALANTE:
03 I Wait for a Ship
03A Intro Tum Balalaika
04 Tum Balalaika (Nov. 12, 2018)
04A Intro Blitz:
05 Modest Maid (Mar. 8, 2013)
05A Intro Maury Yeston:
06 I Don't Wanna Rock & Roll
06A Intro So Low
07 So Low (GROWING UP WOMAN)(Nov. 20, 2011)
07A Intro Lost in the Stars
08 Lost in the Stars
08A Intro MAHAGONNY:
09 You Made Up Your Bed (Blitzstein tr.)
09A Intro Quarrel Song
10 Quarrel Song (JUNO)
11 Do You Love Me? (FIDDLER)
11A Intro Goldfaden
12 Rozhinkes mit Mandeln
12A Intro Weimar
13 Sleepless
13A Intro Gedanken
!4 Die Gedanken Sind Frei
14A Intro Assimilated
15 I Am Easily Assimilated (CANDIDE)
15A Intro Mark Levy
16 Take Off Your Clothes (Aug. 6, 2011)[clothed]
17 Naturist Anthem Clothed (June 6, 2017) +Subtitles (Feb. 24, 2021)
Students & Teachers Recital June 27, 2023
Click here for Playlist.
00 Welcome
01A Copland: At the River
01B Simple Gifts
01C I Bought Me a Cat
01D Re Aaron Copland
02 Copland Vn-Pno Sonata Mvt 2
02A Re Elie Siegmeister
03A Siegmeister: Easy Piece #1
03B Siegmeister: Easy Piece #2
03C Siegmeister: Easy Piece #3
03D Siegmeister: Easy Piece #4
03E Siegmeister: Easy Piece #5
03F Re BETSY
04A BETSY #1-2
04B BETSY #3
04C BETSY #4-5
04D BETSY #6-10
04E Re Paul Hindemith
05 Hindemith: Althorn Sonata Mvts 3&1 +Poem
05A Intro Chris Day Interview
05B Christine Day Interview Excerpt
05B1 Chris Day Interview Pt1
05B2 Chris Day Interview Pt2
05B3 Chris Day Interview Pt3
05B4 Chris Day Interview Pt4
05B5 Chris Day Interview Pt5
05C Intro Brian Israel
06A Brian Israel: Edgard Varese Elegy
06B Brian Israel: Piano Pieces #1&@
06C Re 12-Tone
07 Lehrman: Flute Sonatina (for Violin)
07A Amy Strauss Glass, Ann Agranoff, Re Stanley Haynes
08 Stanley Haynes: Violin & Piano Piece #1
08A Re John Harbison
09 Harbison: Twilight Music for Violin, Horn & Piano
09A Intro Joel Mandelbaum
10 Mandelbaum: Viola-Piano Sonata Mvt 3
10A Outro Mandelbaum Intro Palmer
11 Robert M. Palmer: Flute(/Violin) Mvt 1
11A Intro GaSLOCoLI
12A Murphy's Farewell & Love Duet with Molly from EMERALD ISLE
12B Bunn's Last Song from EMERALD ISLE
13 Tennyson-Lehrman: Sweet & Low
13A End Discussion
Black History Month, Feb. 7, 2023
Click here for Playlist.
00 Intro Aime Cesaire
01 Blues de la pluie
01A Intro Shostakovich
02 Shostakovich Piano Trio #2 with horn
02A Intro Kevin Scott
03 Night Journey
03A Intro Brahms
04 Brahms Horn Trio Mvts 1-4
04A Brahms Horn Trio Mvt 1
04B Brahms Horn Trio Mvt 2
04C Brahms Horn Trio Mvt 3
04D Brahms Horn Trio Mvt 4
04E Conclusion
6 Violin/Viola-Piano+Soprano Monthly Chamber Concerts in 2022
presented on Zoom in conjunction with Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, Valley Stream;
Tuesdays at 5PM with Helene Williams, Daniel Hyman & Leonard Lehrman:
6) Jun. 21, 2022 Students & Teachers + arias cut from Sacco and Vanzetti
5) May 3, 2022 "Maying"
4) Apr. 5, 2022 Jewish Music Month
3) Mar. 1, 2022 Women's History Month
2) Feb.1, 2022 Black History Month
1) Jan. 11, 2022 Celebrating Schubert's 225th Birthday (Jan. 31)
6 Jun. 21, 2022 Students&Teachers +arias cut from Sacco and Vanzetti
Playlist: tinyurl.com/21Juno2022
Entire Concert
01 Love's Secret
02 When I Am Dead, My Dearest
03 Katzmann's cut Aria
04 Thayer's cut Aria
05 Moore's cut Aria +Thayer's Rejoinder
06>/a> Vanzetti's cut Terza Roma Letter
07 Thompson's cut Secrets Aria (Aug. 19, 2001)
08 Mandelbaum: Mesto for viola & piano
09 Habitation (Attwood)
10 Thanks (Sternklar)
11 SUN/SON (Boudin)
12 Sloan: Nocturne - Moonlit Sea
13 Humperdinck: Notturno (vn-pno)
14 Robertson: Vno-Piano Sonata Mvt 2
15 No Rose Need Ask (Hughes-Siegmeister; Lehrman)
16 Siegmeister Vn-Pno Sonata #6 Mvt 1
17 Robert M. Palmer: Transitions (Aug. 20, 1999)
18 Flute Sonata Mvt 3 (on Vn)
19 Palmer: Caw River
20 Lehrman: Vn-Pno Sonata (3 Mvts)
5 May 3, 2022 "Maying"
Playlist: tinyurl.com/3May2022
Entire Program
01 Heine-Schumann: Im wunderschšnen Monat Mai
02 Kreisler: Schoen Rosmarin
03 Strauss: Allerseelen
04 Strauss: ROSENKAVALIER Walzer
05 Passionate Shepherd (Marlowe; Ben&Hannah) (Aug. 20, 2009)
06 Eve (Meeropol; Ben&Hannah) (Aug. 20, 2009)
07 may I feel (Cummings; Greg & Michelle) (Aug. 18, 2019)
08 Brahms: Die Mainacht
09 Brahms: Viola-Piano Sonata #1 Mvt 1
10 Brahms: Viola-Piano Sonata #1 Mvt 2
11 Brahms: Viola-Piano Sonata #1 Mvt 3
12 Brahms: Viola-Piano Sonata #1 Mvt 4
13 Lusty Month of May (CAMELOT)
14 Berryman: Love Is the Weirdest of All
15 Koloda Duda (May 1, 2022)
16 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (May 5, 2019)
4 Apr. 5, 2022 Jewish Music Month
- with Perri Sussman, Joel Mandelbaum, Natasha Hirschhorn
Playlist: tinyurl.com/April05-2022
Entire Program
01 April in Paris
02 Grandfather Song (June 16, 2012)
03 Adonai Ma Adam for Viola & Piano
04 Adoration (Sept. 13, 2013)
05 We Remember Them (sop & viola)
05A Natasha Jitomirskaia Hirschhorn short interview
06 Song of Serakh
07 A Callarse (Neruda-Lehrman)
08 Bloch: Vidui (vn-pno)
08A Bloch: Nigun (vn-pno)(Apr. 6, 2021)
09 Bloch: Simhat Torah (vn-pno)
10 Warshawsky: Die Mezinke (Oct. 17, 2019)
11 Salomon: Am Yisrael Chai Variations
12 Halevy: Romance from NOE (Dec. 1, 2014)
13 We Jews (Heine-Lehrman)
14 Mandelbaum: Maman's 2nd Aria from THE VILLAGE (Mar. 6, 2014)
15 Shtil di Nakht (Oct. 17, 2019)
16 From 6,000,000 Nameless Graves (Segal)
17 The Rabbi & the Rich Man
18 FIDDLER Medley
19 Natasha Jitomirsakaia Hirschhorn long interview
3 Mar. 1, 2022 Women's History Month
- with Vanessa Lann, Miriam Schneir, Perri Sussman, Lori Laitman, Jordie Albiston
Playlist: tinyurl.com/1Mar2022
Complete Concert
01 Where Do I Belong? (SF, Dec. 27, 1991)
02 My Dove, My Beautiful One (James Joyce-Vanessa Lann)
03 Orpheus (Muriel Rukeyser-Lehrman)
04 Lori Laitman: Lullaby
05 I Felt a Cleaving (Dickinson-Lehrman, Perri Sussman)
06 I'm Nobody (Dickinson-Lehrman, Perri Sussman)
07 Wild Nights (Dickinson-Lehrman, Perri Sussman)
08 Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (Jan. 15, 2019)
08A Jordie Albiston reads Missing Him (Jan. 5, 2002)
08B Jordie Albiston short interview
08C Jordie Albiston long interview
09 Missing Him (Jan. 5, 2002)
10 Rebecca Clarke: Va-Piano Sonata Mvt 1
11 Rebecca Clarke: Va-Piano Sonata Mvt 2
12 Rebecca Clarke: Va-Piano Sonata Mvt 3
13 Spektor-Balducci: Turn Around
14 Empty Chairs, Killing Me Softly
15 Underneath the Spanish Stars (Segal, June 23, 1991)
16 Zelophehad's Daughters (June 23, 199)
17 Berryman: Your State's Name Here (Aug. 3, 2017)
18 Cockroach Christmas (verse 3 by Lehrman)(Aug. 1, 2013)
19 Why Am I Painting the Living Room? (Aug. 9, 2014)
20 Good Night, Everybody (July 31, 2015)
21 Frauenliebe und Leben #1 (Perri Sussman)
22 Frauenliebe und Leben #2 (Perri Sussman)
23 Frauenliebe und Leben #3 (Perri Sussman)
24 Frauenliebe und Leben #4 (Perri Sussman)
25 Frauenliebe und Leben #5 (Perri Sussman)
26 Frauenliebe und Leben #6 (Perri Sussman)
27 Frauenliebe und Leben #7 (Perri Sussman)
28 Frauenliebe und Leben #8 (Perri Sussman)
2 Feb. 1, 2022 Black History Month - with Patrice Eaton, Kevin Scott
Playlist: tinyurl.com/1Feb2022
Complete Program
0A Charles S. Brown, Old Abe Lincoln excerpt
0B Charles S. Brown as Judge in The Triangle Fire
01 Kevin Scott: Invention
02 Kevin Scott: Etude
03 Kevin Scott: Morning Pastorale
04 Kevin Scott: Schubert's Swan
05 Kevin Scott: Ruminations on Beethoven
06 Let America Be America Again (Langston Hughes-Lehrman)
07 Joseph Jones: Sarabande
08 Joseph Jones: Va-Pno Sonata Mvt 2
09 The Hill We Climb (Amanda Gorman-Lehrman)
10 Strange Fruit
11 Scottsboro Boys (Siegmeister)
12 Yes, No, or Maybe (Langston Hughes-Siegmeister)
13 After Many Springs (Langston Hughes-Hale Smith)
14 Fog (Carl Sandburg-Hale Smith)
15 Tell It On and On (Edith Segal)
16 I Have a Dream Finale (Siegmeister)
1 Jan. 11, 2022 Schubert
Playlist: tinyurl.com/11Jan2022
Complete Program
01 Fantasie in F Minor (with Bill Cowdery at Cornell)
02 Gretchen am Spinnrade
03 Heidenroeslein
04 Erlkoenig
05A Sonatina #2 Mvt 1
05B Sonatina #2 Mvt 2
05C Sonatina #2 Mvt 3
05D Sonatina #2 Mvt 4
06 Woman's Song (Judith Wright-Leonard Lehrman)
07 Death & the Maiden
08 Die Forelle
09 An die Music
10A Duo Mvt 1
10B Duo Mvt 2
10C Duo Mvt 3
10D Duo Mvt 4
11 Die junge Nonne
12 My Song (Lorraine Mund-Leonard Lehrman)
13 Ave Maria
14A Piano Sonata in Bb, op. posthumous Mvt 1
14B Piano Sonata in Bb, op. posthumous Mvt 2
14C Piano Sonata in Bb, op. posthumous Mvt 3
14D Piano Sonata in Bb, op. posthumous Mvt 4
Postlude: Impromptu, op. 142 #3
10 Violin/Viola-Piano+Soprano Monthly Chamber Concerts in 2021
presented on Zoom in conjunction with Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, Valley Stream;
Tuesdays at 5PM with Helene Williams, Daniel Hyman & Leonard Lehrman:
10 Dec. 7, 2021 Winter
9 Nov. 9, 2021 Autumn
8 Oct. 5, 2021 Russia
7 Sep. 21, 2021 Romance, Romania & Humor
6 Jun. 1, 2021 Students & Teachers
5 May 4, 2021 in memory of Nat Lehrman
4 Apr. 6, 2021 Jewish Music Month
3 Mar. 2, 2021 Blitzstein, Spring, Mandelbaum
2 Feb. 2, 2021 Women Composers & Composers of Color
1 Jan. 12, 2021 Bach-Beethoven-Brahms-Siegmeister
10 Dec. 7, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/7Dec2021
Complete Concert
01 Must the winter come so soon?
02 Birthday of the Bank excerpt
03A Handel Vn-Pno Sonata#3 Mvt1
03B Handel Vn-Pno Sonata#3 Mvt2
03C Handel Vn-Pno Sonata#3 Mvt3
03D Handel Vn-Pno Sonata#3 Mvt4
04 Send in the Clowns
05A Kabalevsky Pno Sonata#3 Mvt1
05B Kabalevsky Pno Sonata#3 Mvt2
05C Kabalevsky Pno Sonata#3 Mvt3
06A Vivaldi Winter Mvt1
06B Vivaldi Winter Mvt2
06C Vivaldi Winter Mvt3
07 Winter Morning
08A Brahms Vn-Pno Sonata#3 Mvt1
08B Brahms Vn-Pno Sonata#3 Mvt2
08C Brahms Vn-Pno Sonata#3 Mvt3
08D Brahms Vn-Pno Sonata#3 Mvt4
09 Cereal Christmas Carol
9 Nov. 9, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/9Nov2021
Complete Concert
1 November (Heine-Lehrman)
2 Yeats-Mandelbaum
3 Shakespeare (Sonnet#116)-Mandelbaum
4 Grimcke-Mandelbaum
5 Bronte-Lehrman
6A Mozart, K. 454 Mvt 1
6B Mozart Mvt 2
6C Mozart Mvt 3
7 The Last Word
8A Brahms, op. 120 #2 (Viola) Mvt 1
8B Brahms Mvt 2
8C Brahms Mvt 3
8 Oct. 5, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/5Oct2021
Full Program Beginning 37:36
Full Program Conclusion 52:38
01 Slonimsky Prelude in C 1:46
02A Blok-LehrmanBenediction (English) 1:40
02B Benediction (Russian) 1:48
03 Glazunov ElegyÊ 5:16
04 KatyushaÊ 2:04
05 Tcherepnin Prayer 2:59
06 My University (Mayakovsky) 2:51
07 Greeting (Fet) 3:13
08 Quartet (Krylov) 3:50
09 Nightingale in a Dream (Derzhavin) 3:25
10 Me & Russia (Khlebnikov) 3:02
11 UnitledÊ(Leybovich) 1:43
12 Tchaikovsky (Goethe) 2:23
13 Scriabin, op. 8 #12 2:54
14 Medvedovskaya 2:10
15 S&V Act II Trio 2:04
16A Prokofiev Vn-Pno Sonata #2 Mvt 1 6:45
16B Prokofiev Mvt 2 6:17
16C Prokofiev Mvt 3 4:14
16D Prokofiev Mvt 4 8:00
7 Sep. 21, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/21Sep2021
Complete 2:08:39
01 Dowland: Come Again, Sweet Love 3:08
02+ Lehrman-Shatzky: Tell Me, What Is Love?[Feb. 4, 2014] 3:01
03 Schumann: Romances#1-3 12:22
04 Schumann: Widmung[July 14, 2002] 2:19
05 Thomson VPSon#1 Mvts1-3 7:50
3 Nash for Norman [Eaton]:
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06A+ The Lion 1:20
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06 B+ The Purist 1:28
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06C+ The Termite 1:11
07 Ives: VPSon#4 Mvts1-3 13:28
08 Ives: They Are There 1:36
3 Eminescu Songs (Lehrman):
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09A+ Eminescu #1 (Sonnet 2) 3:05
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09B+ Eminescu #2 (Si daca) (And If) 2:02
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09C+ Eminescu #3 (Sonnet 3) 2:43
10 Bartok: Romanian Folk Dance #1 1:36
11 Enescu: Concert Piece for Viola & Piano 10:48
2 Tauberg Songs (Lehrman):
--
12A+ Iubire (Love) 2:46
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12B+ Aventura (Adventure) 3:53
13 Beethoven: Romance #1 6:50
14+ Lehrman: Jewish Haikus #1-12 [Jan. 23, 2011] 8:18
15 Kreisler: Liebesleid 3:52
6 Jun. 1, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/1Juno2021
Complete Concert Pt A #1-12 1:25:36
Complete Concert Pt B #13-22 1:10:45
01 Hindemith: Trauermusik 6:17
02+ Kim: Letters Found Near a Suicide 6:11
03 Palmer FlSonMvt2 4:41
04+ Lehrer-Lehrman: Elements Updated 2:35
05+ Feiner: Harvest 2:23
06+ SCott EtAn FEinEr Variations (Lehrman) 5:16
07 Robert Shafer: Elegy 6:25
08 Robert Rodriguez Interview 4:30
09 Rodriguez: PTrio#1 Mvt1 3:03
10 Jay Gottlieb PTrio SlowMvt 7:55
11 LJL PTrio SlowMvt 2:04
12 Debussy-Lehrman M.Croche 1:33
13+ Robertson SlowMvt 4:26
2 Michael Shapiro Songs:
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14+ Wordsworth 1:13
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15+ Joyce 1:21
16 Herbert Deutsch: Quiet Times 3:32
17A Siegmeister: VPSon#6 Mvt1 6:53
17B Siegmeister: VPSon#6 Mvt2 5:38
18 Humperdinck: Notturno 4:19
19 Donald Sloan: CopyCat 3:25
20 Lukas Foss: Prelude 2:13
21 Leon Kirchner: Sonata Concertante 25:27
22 Humperdinck Albumblatt 1:44
Long Rodriguez Interview 15:41
5 May 4, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/4May2021
in memory of Nat Lehrman (1923-2020)
Complete program with Commentary
"Haymarket" from E.G.@SF, 1991
"If I Can't Dance" from E.G. +NSL
Maid of Athens by N.Lehrman
Maid of Athens Variations by L.Lehrman
Schubert Sonatina Mvt 1
Schubert Sonatina Mvt 2
Schubert Sonatina Mvt 3
For My Father ("Do Not Go Gentle" - Dylan Thomas-L.Lehrman)
SchumannMaerchenbild 1
SchumannMaerchenbild 4
Pity the Nation (Ferlinghetti-Lehrman)
Franck SonataMvt 1
Franck Sonata Mvt 2
Franck Sonata Mvt 3
Franck Sonata Mvt 4
Rachmaninoff PCto#2 Mvt1
Rachmaninoff PCto#2 Mvt2
Rachmaninoff PCto#2 Mvt3
4 Apr. 6, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/6Apr2021
Jewish Music Month
Bernstein, Ellstein, Bloch, Bruch, Mozart, Ravel, Weiner, Lehrer & Lehrman
with guest Alex Skovron from Melbourne
1 Shalom Rav
2 Secular Kaddish
3 Clementine Kaddish
4 Ravel Kaddish
5-6 Hanukka in SantaMonica-GootYuntif
7 Niggun
8 KolNidre Prelude
9 Bruch KolNidre Vn
10 I'd Like to GoAwayAlone
11 The Golem
12 MozVPSonEm Mvt1
13 MozVPSonEm Mvt2
14 Franchise
15 Bloch Nigun
16 Yiddish
17 VoltMaynTateh
18 Grine Kuzine
19 In der Fremd
20-21 ZogNitKeynmol-TumBalalaika
22 Agathon
23 Every Boy Should Have a Jewish Mother
24 LightInTheDarkness Va
25 ThinkingOfYou Va
26 MiShebeirach
27 OyMame
3 Mar. 2, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/2Mar2021
Blitzstein, Spring, Mandelbaum+Rodgers, Lehrer, Bach-Beethoven-Brahms
and guest Joel Mandelbaum
1 Parker-Blitzstein-Lehrman: War Song
2 Rodgers&Hammerstein: It Might As Well Be Spring
3 Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
4 Dickinson-Lehrman-Mandelbaum w/ Viola
5 Mandelbaum: FlamencoDancer#2
6 MandelBrahms
7 Groth-Brahms: Regenlied
8A Brahms: VPSon#1 Mvt1
8B Brahms: VPSon#1 Mvt2
8C Brahms: VPSon#1 Mvt3
9 Bach: Chaconne Theme
10 Mandelbaum: Music Is Time
11A Beethoven: Spring Sonata Mvt1
11B SpringSon Mvt2
11C SpringSon Mvt3
11D SpringSon Mvt4
2 Feb. 2, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/2Feb2021
including music by Yardena Alotin, Jeanne Singer, Hale Smith,
and guests Tania Leon, Juanita Smith, Mira J. Spektor & Kevin Scott
+surprise guests George Shirley and Ralph Locke!
1A Yardena Alotin VP Sonatina Mvt1
1B Alotin Mvt2
2 Tania Leon: Rondo a la Criolla
3 Hughes-Lehrman: A Dream Deferred
4 Hale Smith: Evocation
5 Where Have You Been Since Yesterday?
6 O Gee, How I Love You
7 When I Look in Your Eyes
8 Kevin Scott: In a Minute, Harold
9 Mira J. Spektor: Take Me Home Tonight
10 So lasst mich scheinen
11 Musensohn
12A Adele Berk VP Sonata Mvt1
12B Berk Mvt2
12C Berk Mvt3
13A Jeanne Singer#1 MergingSong
13B Singer#2 ADecade
13C Singer#3 Lament
13D Singer#4 All Beauty
1 Jan. 12, 2021 Playlist:
tinyurl.com/12January2021
Bach-Beethoven-Brahms-Siegmeister
with guests Kim Rich & Mimi (Siegmeister) Koren
1 Bach: Siciliano
2 Bach: My Heart Ever Faithful
3A Beethoven: VPSon#7 Mvt1
3B Beethoven: VPSon#7 Mvt2
4 Rich-Siegmeister: Outside My Window
5 Rich-Lehrman: Poets in Their Own Home Town
6 Siegmeister-Lehrman: Untitled
7A Siegmeister: VPSon#3 Mvt1
7B Siegmeister: VPSon#3 Mvt 2
8 Hughes-Siegmeister: Childhood Memories
9 Hughes-Siegmeister: Chalk Marks
10 Groth-Brahms: Wie Melodien
11A Brahms: VPSon#2 Mvt1
11B Brahms: VPSon#2 Mvt2
11C Brahms: VPSon#2 Mvt3
Dec. 16, 2020 Beethoven Semiquincentennial Zoom Concert via Long Beach Public Library
Dec. 13, 2020
Beethoven Semiquincentennial Zoom Concert via Oyster Bay & Valley Stream Libraries
June 6, 2020 Daniel Hyman, Bixby Kennedy (via remote), Helene & Leonard
June 9, 2019 Thomas Smith, Dakule Trio, Ben & Hannah Spierman,
Helene, Leonard & Catherine Neville (recorder, clarinets, alto sax)
June 3, 2018 Kristian Fajardo and Alexandru Caramihai, piano; Thomas Smith, tenor; Helene Williams, soprano,and the Dakule Trio:
Daniel Hyman, violin (also voice & piano); Kurt Behnke, cello; Leonard Lehrman, piano
June 4, 2017 Kristian Fajardo, piano; Pastor Jack Whritenour, piano;
Nathaniel Lehrman, violin; and the Dakule Trio:
Daniel Hyman, violin; Kurt Behnke, cello; Leonard Lehrman, piano
January 13, 2017 Joel Mandelbaum, Nathaniel Lehrman, Thomas Smith, Kristian Fajardo
May 30, 2016 Bill Castleman, Kristian Fajardo, with poets Galina Leybovich & Efim Medvedovskiy, and composer Nataliya Medvedovskaya
June 21, 2015 Thomas Smith, Nathaniel S. Lehrman
June 28, 2014 Vanessa Bright, Thomas Smith, Lauren Levy
June 29, 2013 Cheyenne Ali, Vanessa Bright, Thomas Smith
June 2, 2012 Geri Lecessi, Thomas Smith, Tara Zemel
June 12, 2011 Scott Etan Feiner, Karen Gustave, Katie Mazalkov, Lloyd Tanedo
June 27, 2010 Estela Eaton, Ijeoma Merenini
Dec. 16, 2020 7PM Beethoven Semiquincentennial Zoom Concert
via the Long Beach Public Library
with Helene Williams and the Dakule Trio.
Dec. 13, 2020 2:30 PM Beethoven Semiquincentennial Zoom Concert
via the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library
and the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in Valley Stream
with Helene Williams and the Dakule Trio.
Commentary from Dec. 16 and full contents from Dec. 13 posted
here.
Excerpts:
1 Trio, op. 1 #1 Mvt1
2 Ich liebe dich
3 Rondo
4 Mozart Magic Flute Duet
5 Magic Flute Duet Variations
6 In questa tomba oscura
7 Kreutzer Sonata Mvt1
8 Kennst du das Land
9 God Save the King Variations
10 Marzelline - from Fidelio
11 Vc-Pno Son #2 Finale
12 Adelaide
13A Archduke Trio Mvt1
13B Archduke Trio Mvt2
13C Archduke Trio Mvts3&4
14 Again My Lyre
Dec. 16 Beethoven (Long Beach)
Abbreviated Program + Commentary
House Concert Recital at Court Street Music of June 6, 2020
with Daniel Hyman, Bixby Kennedy (on remote), Leonard & Helene
Click here for concert playlist.
Excerpts:
01 Intro
02 Shalom Rav
03 Intro Dan Hyman
04 Niggun
05 Intro Sima
06 Manya's Lullaby
07 Intro+Maid of Athens
08 Variations
09 Intro Dylan Thomas
10 For My Father
11 Intro Mozart
12 Mozarrt VP Son#4 Mvt 1
13 Mozart VPSon#4 Mvt 2
14 Intro Ferlinghetti
15 Pity the Nation
16 Intro Bixby Kennedy
17 7 Meditatons on Hiroshima
18 Outro Bixby Kennedy
19 Intro Schubert
20 An den Mond
21 Intro Schumann
22 Maerchenbild 1
23 Maerchenbild 4
24 Intro Kaleko
25 Liebeslied
26 Intro+Beneath the Waning Moon
27 Intro Rachmaninoff
28 Rachmaninoff PCto2 Mvt2 (for Vn&Pno)
29 Intro Stages thru the Ages
30 Stages Thru the Ages
31 Beethoven SpringSonata Mvt1
32 Beethoven SpringSonata Mvt2
33 Beethoven SpringSonata Mvt3
34 Beethoven SpringSonata Mvt4
35 Intro+Berrymans Nov PSA
House Concert/Student Recital at Court Street Music of June 9, 2019
with Thomas Smith, Dakule Trio, Ben & Hannah Spierman,
Helene, Leonard & Catherine Neville (recorder, clarinets, alto sax)
Click here for concert playlist.
Excerpts:
01 Intro
02 Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein Ballad of the Easy Life (Tom)
03 Intro to Magic Flute Duet
04 Magic Flute Duet (Ben & Hannah)
05 Mozart Clarinet Trio Finale (Catherine, Dan, Leonard)
06 Beethoven Cello-Pno Variations on Magic Flute Duet (Kurt, Leonard)
07 Aria by Emperor Joseph I (Helene, Catherine, Leonard)
08 Bernstein: "Agathon" from Serenade (Dan, Leonard)
09 Intro to Martin Anderson
10 Lehrman: After-Life Irony (poem: Martin Anderson) Helene & Leonard
11 Lehrman: Thanatos (Kurt, Leonard)
12 Lehrman: The Big Fish (poem: Mary Stewart Hammond) Helene & Leonard
13 Lehrman: Thinking of You (Kurt, Leonard)
14 Lehrman: The Rainbow Shards (poem: Jane Collins) Helene, Leonard
15 Lehrman: The Dark Years (poem: Jane Collins) Tom, Leonard
16 Intro to Catherine Neville Suite
17 Neville: Suite in 5 Mvts (Bb Cl, Sop Rec, Eb Cl, A Cl, AltoSax & Pno)
18 Siegmeister-Gold: Strange Funeral in Braddock (Tom, Leonard)
19 Bruch: 8 Pieces for Cl,Va&Pno, op. 53 #6&4 (Catherine, Dan, Leonard)
20 Mikado Song a la russe (Ben)
21 Beethoven PTrio#1, op. 1 #1 (4 mvts) Dakule Trio
House Concert/Student Recital at Court Street Music of June 3, 2018
with Kristian Fajardo and Alexandru Caramihai, piano; Thomas Smith, tenor; Helene Williams, soprano; Sandra Fox, alto;
and the Dakule Trio:
Daniel Hyman, violin (also voice & piano); Kurt Behnke, cello; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Video by Helene Williams.
Click here for concert playlist.
Excerpts:
01 Intro
02 Lehrman: Scaling the Heights
02A Intro + Scaling the Heights & Rothgarber: Russia, Russia @Hofstra, June 10, 2018
03 Intro + Fajardo: Boats in 2 Directions
03A Boats in 2 Directions @Hofstra, June 10, 2018
04 Bernstein-Stern: There Had to Be a Revolution (TomSmith)
05 Reading + Obradors: La mi sola (Helene Williams)
06 Reading + Obradors: Al Amor (Helene Williams)
07 Intro to Robert Levin's music
08 Levin: Phantom of Fontainebleau (Dan Hyman)
09 Slonimsky: Cordelia's Aria from King Lear (Helene Williams)
Retake of June 20, 2018
on Boris Pasternak's Russian tr. of Shakespeare's play, tr. back into English by L.Lehrman
10 Lehrman-Blake: Love's Secret (Sandra Fox)
11 Smith-Thoreau: I Am a Parcel (Tom Smith)
12 Mandelbaum:-Millay Love Is Not All (Helene Williams)
13 Intro to 3 Blitzstein songs
14 Blitzstein: Writing a Letter, from Children's Cantata (Tom Smith)
15 Blitzstein: Purest Kind of a Guy, from No for an Answer (Tom Smith)
16 Blitzstein: Emily, from The Airborne Symphony (Tom Smith)
17 Intro to Alex Skovron Reading
18 Lehrman: The Last Word (Helene Williams) Retake of June 20, 2018
19 Schumann: Trio #1 mvt 1 (Dakule Trio)
20 Lehrman: "Brahms Trio #2" mvt 3 (Dakule Trio)
House Concert/Student Recital at Court Street Music of June 4, 2017
with Kristian Fajardo, Pastor Jack Whritenour,
Nathaniel Lehrman, violin; and the Dakule Trio:
Daniel Hyman, violin; Kurt Behnke, cello; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Video by Amy Glass
Click here for concert playlist.
Click here for June 22, 2017 Valley Stream Herald article with photos.
Excerpts:
Welcome & Intro
Lehrman:
Reineke Fuchs Overture
Lehrman:
kriStiAn FAjArDo played by Kristian Fajardo
Aaron Copland (arr.):
Long Time Ago sung by Helene Williams
Aaron Copland (arr.):
Simple Gifts sung by Helene Williams
Frere Jacques played by Kristian & Leonard, sung by All in French, English, and Romanian(!)
Intro to Dakule Trio
Lehrman:
Brahms' Cl Trio #2 (w/Vn) mvts 1&2 Dakule Trio
J.S. Bach:
Double Concerto in C minor mvt 2 Pastor Jack & Leonard
Hugh Robertson:
Piano Trio #2 mvt 2 Dakule Trio
Dmitri Shostakovich:
Piano Trio #2 in E Minor mvts 3&4 Dakule Trio
Pushkin-Lehrman:
Winter Morning(in English) sung by Helene
Galina Leybovich-Lehrman:
Untitled (in English) sung by Helene
Robert Schumann:
Piano Trio #1 in D Minor mvts 3&4
Naturist Anthem (Clothed!)
House Concert/CD Release Party at Court Street Music of January 13, 2017
All vocals by Helene Williams - except as noted -
with Leonard Lehrman at the piano
Video by Helene Williams
For further info on CD, "Harmonize Your Spirit With My Calm," Music by Leonard Lehrman & Joel Mandelbaum, go to http://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr7951/.
Click here for concert playlist.
Excerpts:
CD Intro
Blok-Lehrman: Benediction
Mandelbaum: Prelude
Brahms: O wuesst ich doch
Edna St. Vincent Millay reading "Not in a Silver Casket"
Millay reading "Love Is Not All" +Comment
Millay-Lehrman: Not in a Silver Casket
on setting Millay
Millay-Mandelbaum: Love Is Not All
Two Parodies:
--Mandelbaum: Professor Song - sung by Mandelbaum
--N. S. Lehrman: Analysis Song - sung by N.S. Lehrman
Zhukov: Shutka played by Thomas Smith
Prokofiev: Gavotte from Classical Symphony
Corliss Lamont Story
Lehrman: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Song #1
Lehrman: Chorale for 2 Pianos
Lehrman: kriStiAn FAjArDo
Brahms: Vergebliches Staendchen
Court Street Music Recital of May 30, 2016
All vocals by Helene Williams - except as noted -
with Leonard Lehrman (sometimes as solo, sometimes in duet, sometimes just accompanying) at the piano
Video by Helene Williams
Click here for playlist.
Excerpts:
Intro by Leonard Lehrman
Weiner:
Yiddish
Slepovich:
Chashniki (duet)
Di Grine Kuzine (male solo)
Intro to Kristian Fajardo
The Volga Boatman (piano duet with Kristian Fajardo)
Intro to Goloopchik
Blitzstein: Goloopchik
title song (duet) & Mamasha Goose
Slonimsky:
Clouds
Intro to 3 Graces
Slonimsky:
3 Graces (piano solo)
Intro to E.G.
Russia-America (duo scene) from E.G.
Lehrer:
Lobachevsky (male solo)
Blok-Lehrman:
Benediction
Leybovich-Lehrman:
Untitled
Krylov-Lehrman:
Quartet (male solo)
Derzhavin-Lehrman:
Nightingale in a Dream
Pushkin-Lehrman:
Winter Morning
Mayakovsky-Lehrman:
My University (male solo)
Intro to Medvedovskiy/aya
Medevdovskiy/aya: Within me music would resound
KolodaDuda/WhereHaveAllTheFlowersGone? (duet)
Lehrman:
Memorial Day Poem
Joe Hill sung by Bill Castleman
Prokofiev:
Xenia's Lament from Boris Godunov
Mandelbaum:
Prelude & Finale (piano solo) from The Dybbuk
Intro to Sima
Manya's Lullaby from Sima (in Russian)
Intro to Mikhoels the Wise
Adolphe: Birobidjan Scene (duet) from Mikhoels the Wise
Intro to Tum Balalaika
Tum Balalaika (duet)
Complete Court Street Music Recital of June 21, 2015
in memory of Emily R. Lehrman (Mar. 1, 1923-Jan. 13, 2015)
Video by Helene Williams & Joel Simpson
Click here for playlist.
Excerpts:
Concert Intro by Leonard Lehrman
Johannes Brahms:
Wie Melodien - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Robert Palmer:
Kaw River - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Carl Nielsen:
Wondrous Fragrance of the Evening - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Thomas Smith-Walt Whitman:
I Am the Poet of the Body - Thomas Smith, tenor; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Alexander Dargomyzhsky:
Rusalka's Act 2 Aria from Rusalka, tr. L. & Emily Lehrman - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
N. Lehrman:
Maid of Athens composed & sung by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, intros by Leonard Lehrman
L. Lehrman:
Manya's Lullaby from (Sima) - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
L. Lehrman:
Maid of Athens Variations [in memory of Emily R. Lehrman] - Nathaniel S. Lehrman, violin; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Richard & Gloria Rindermans-L. Lehrman:
Politicians' Polka - w/Intro - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman at the piano
Fiddler Intro by Leonard Lehrman
Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick:
A Fiddler on the Roof [cut] from A Fiddler on the Roof - Thomas Smith, tenor; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick:
Any Day Now [cut] from A Fiddler on the Roof - Thomas Smith, tenor; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Two Settings of Proverbs 31 [in memory of Emily R. Lehrman]:
--L. Lehrman:
A Woman of Valor - sad - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
--L. Lehrman:
A Woman of Valor - happier - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Man of La Mancha Intro by Leonard Lehrman
Mitch Leigh-Joe Darion:
Dulcinea from Man of La Mancha- Thomas Smith, tenor; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Mitch Leigh-Joe Darion:
The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha - Thomas Smith, tenor; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Orel Protopopescu-L. Lehrman:
A Villanelle for Emily [in memory of Emily R. Lehrman] - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
L.Lehrman-Gunter Loscher:
Sehnsucht (Eng.) from Let's Change the Woild! - Thomas Smith, tenor; Leonard Lehrman, piano
I Know Where I'm Going Scottish folksong, in memory of Ronnie Gilbert (1926-2015) - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Leonard Bernstein Intro by Leonard Lehrman
Leonard Bernstein:
Anniversary - for Aaron Leonard Lehrman, piano
Leonard Bernstein-Yoko Ono-Sean Ono Lennon:
Sean Song - Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin:
This Is New (from Lady in the Dark)- Thomas Smith, tenor; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Johannes Brahms:
Vergebliches Staendchen- Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Excerpts from Court Street Music Recital of June 28, 2014
Click here for Playlist.
One's Self I Sing Thomas Smith sings his setting of poem by Walt Whitman, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
Rachel's Air, "Il va venir," from La Juive by Halevy
--sung by Helene Williams, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
3 Emily Dickinson Songs by Herbert Rothgarber, sung by Helene Williams with Leonard Lehrman, piano
--individual Rothgarber-Dickinson Songs:
I'm Nobody,
If I Could Stop One Heart from Breaking,
Out of the Morning
My Ship by Kurt Weill & Ira Gershwin, from Lady in the Dark, sung by Thomas Smith, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
Leo Kraft:
3 Short Pieces (Busy Day, Spiritual, Thumbs Under)- Leonard Lehrman, piano
Passion Spent by Peter I. Tchaikovsky (on poem by A. Tolstoy)
--sung by Vanessa Bright & Thomas Smith, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
Kuma's Aria from Tchaikovsky's Tcharodeyka Act IV
--sung in Russian by Lauren Levy, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
Tchaikovsky by Kurt Weill & Ira Gershwin, from Lady in the Dark sung by Thomas Smith, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
Leonard Lehrman:
Nightingale in a Dream (Gavril Derzhavin) sung a cappella in Russian by Vanessa Bright
Spring Waters by Rachmaninoff (on poem by Tyutchev)
--sung in Russian by Lauren Levy, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
Romeo & Juliet Duet by Peter I. Tchaikovsky, completed by Alexander Taneyev
--sung by Vanessa Bright & Thomas Smith, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
Excerpts from Court Street Music Recital of June 29, 2013
All except the first number accompanied by Leonard Lehrman at the piano
For Cheyenne piano solo by Leonard Lehrman, for Cheyenne Ali, performed by her
Pamina-Papageno Duet from Mozart's Magic Flute (Ruth & Thomas Martin tr.) sung by Helene Williams & Ben Spierman
My Childhood Home I See Again poem by Abraham Lincoln, music by Thomas Smith, sung by composer
I Bought Me A Cat arr. by Aaron Copland, sung by Helene Williams
Old MacDonald American folksong played & sung by Cheyenne Ali & Leonard Lehrman
Old MacDonald's Viennese cabaret song by Gerhard Bronner, tr. & sung by Leonard Lehrman
Ode to the City of Cologne poem by Thomas Coleridge, music by Leonard Lehrman, sung by Thomas Smith
Miller's Aria from Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka sung in English by Benjamin Spierman
I See Your Image by Alexander Alyabyev, sung in Russian by Vanessa Bright
Smiths of Peace: For Susan June Blake poem by Max Wheat, music by Leonard Lehrman, sung by Helene Williams
A Letter to Louise poem by John Reed, music by Leonard Lehrman, sung by Vanessa Bright
John Reed poem by Abel Meeropol, music by Elie Siegmeister, sung by Thomas Smith
The Lark by Mikhail Glinka, sung in Russian by Vanessa Bright
Hymn to the Moon from Dvorak's Rusalka sung in French by Helene Williams
Strange Funeral in Braddock by Michael Gold & Elie Siegmeister, sung by Thomas Smith
First Reunion by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, sung in Russian by Vanessa Bright
Mary Lincoln's Lament by Julie Mandel, written for & sung by Helene Williams
Passion Spent duet by Peter Ilyitich Tchaikovsky, sung in Russian by Vanessa Bright & Thomas Smith
Excerpts from Court Street Music Recital of June 2, 2012:
Songs from Days of the Commune by Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler, translated by Leonard Lehrman
sung by Thomas Smith & Geri Lecessi, with Leonard Lehrman at the piano:
Introduction;
Solidarity Song,
Easter at Nogent-sur-Seine,
United Front Song
"Sunday Psalm" by Mira J. Spektor (text: Phyllis McGinley)
--introduced & arranged for duet by Leonard J. Lehrman; sung by Geri Lecessi & Helene Williams
"I Saw A Swallow In Its Flight" by Mordecai Yardeini (text: Dora Teitelboim, English translation: Aaron Kramer);
--poem read in the original Yiddish by Lee Weintraub; sung in English (world premiere) by Helene Williams
"Precious Flower" by Geri Lecessi, sung by her;
"Wild Flowers" by Leonard Lehrman (poem by Jud Newborn)
introduced by composer & poet;
--sung by Helene Williams, composer at the piano (world premiere)
"La Mer est plus belle"by Claude Debussy (poem by Paul Verlaine) sung by Helene Williams, with Leonard Lehrman at the piano
"You Get Me" written and sung by Tara Zemel; arr., ed. & accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
"Take Me Home Tonight" by Mira J. Spektor, arr. L. Lehrman, sung by Helene, accompanied by Leonard
"Feux d'Artifices" (Fireworks) by Claude Debussy; Leonard Lehrman, piano solo
"A Blessing & Prayer for Healing" by Leonard Lehrman, introduced by him,
--then sung by Geri Lecessi with the composer at the piano
Court Street Music House Concert/StudentRecital Valley Stream, NY, June 12, 2011
Excerpts from video by Robert Goldberg:
"My Song":
Helene Williams sings Leonard Lehrman's setting of Lorraine Mund's poem;
"Katyusha":
Katie Mazalkov sings the famous Russian folksong that bears her (nick)name;
"Die junge Nonne":
Helene Williams sings Franz Schubert's epic setting;
"Musical Chairs":
Helene Williams sings world premiere of Leonard Lehrman's setting of poem by Carol Miller;
Karen Gustave & Lloyd Tanedo perform Leonard Lehrman's "Up Again," his piano duet, op. 175 #3
Leonard Lehrman & Scott Etan Feiner play world premiere of Leonard's
Theme & Variations: SCott EtAn Feiner, op. 200
Court Street Music House Concert/Student Recital
Valley Stream, NY, June 27, 2010
Excerpts from video by Robert Goldberg:
Midnight Muse by Estela Eaton (click here for an interview with her) & Leonard Lehrman
--performed by Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman
At Least I'm Still Alive by Ijeoma Merenini
--performed by her & Leonard Lehrman
Long Island Is Just Not Long Enough by Marcia McNair & Leonard Lehrman
--performed by Ijeoma Merenini & Leonard Lehrman