HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2003 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 ================================== Abel Meeropol [Lewis Allan] Centennial co-sponsored by The Elie Siegmeister Society Meet The Composer* and Nassau Grants for the Arts** with Tara Venditti, Gregory Mercer, Gregory Rahming and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus in works by Kurt Weill, Lehman Engel, Herbert Haufrecht, Robert Kurka, Martin Kalmanoff, Earl Robinson, and world premieres of works by Lewis Allan, Joel Mandelbaum, Elie Siegmeister, and Leonard: the opera The Wooing based on Chekhov's The Boor --now on CD: Original Cast Recordings OC 6055-- [broadcast on WBAI 99.5 FM Sun. Jun. 22 at 6am] videotaping of excerpts, open to the public including interview with Ivy Meeropol WED., FEB. 5 8:00 p.m. The Open Studio, 537 W. 59 St., Manhattan preview: SUN., FEB. 9 3:00 p.m. at Great Neck House 14 Arrandale Ave., Great Neck Information: (516) 482-0355 FREE SAT., FEB. 15 9:00 p.m. Community Church, Manhattan Not In Our Name benefit, incl. Helene & Leonard in "The House I Live In" + "The Glorious War Song" from Joel Shatzky & Leonard's Superspy! telecast of interview and excerpts THU., FEB. 20 7:30 p.m. Channel 34 Manhattan Neighborhood Network cable TV www.mnn.org Songs of Freedom with Joel Landy premiere: SUN., FEB. 23 2:00 p.m. at Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music, Room 264 co-sponsored by Friends of Queens College Library Information: (718) 997-3802 FREE SUN., FEB. 9 7:00 p.m. WFUV 90.7 FM and wfuv.org present Woody's Children with Bob Sherman, incl. songs by Spektor & Dale from our CD, More Songs of Love THU., APR. 3 8:00 p.m. Holocaust Memorial Concert co-sponsored by Nassau Grants for the Arts** featuring Leonard's cantata Jewish Voices in Germany with guest artists Tara Venditti, Gregory Mercer, Charles Robert Stephens and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus FREE THU., MAY 1 7:00 p.m. An American Labor Songbook incl. songs by Blitzstein, Meeropol, & Leonard at The American Labor Museum, Botto House National Landmark 83 Norwood Street, Haledon, NJ 07508 presented by Passaic County Cultural & Heritage Council Tel. (973) 595-7953 Admission FREE We Are Innocent Leonard's Rosenberg Cantata commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg sung by Helene, Gregory Mercer and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus SUN., JUN. 15 4:00 p.m. at Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 E. Oakdene Ave.,Teaneck, NJ Adm. $5 Tel. 201-836-8923 also WED., JUN. 18 co-sponsored by the National Committee to Re-open the Rosenberg Case at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue 30 W. 68 St., Manhattan SUN., JUN. 22 11 :00 a.m. Rosenberg-Meeropol-Sacco/Vanzetti Memorial Concert with excerpts from the Rosenberg Cantata at Community Church of Boston SAT., JUN. 28 3:00 p.m. First Annual Court Street Music Recital of Our Students at our home, 33 Court Street, Valley Stream, NY featuring Ijeoma Merenini, Jasmine Choi, Rachel Ling, Cesar Colchado, Arthur d'Antonio, and David Weber in music of Giordani, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Humperdinck, Odiase, Dale, Weber and Lehrman FRI., JUL. 4 c. 3:00 p.m. Leonard's "Reineke Fuchs," from his Solo Piano Works CD, broadcast onWHRB-FM and WHRB.org also c. 3:00 p.m. at Guild of Temple Musicians, NY Hilton Hotel, Helene & Leonard perform his "I'd Like to Go Away Alone," "Mi Shebeirach," and (in its world premiere) "Shalom Rav" FRI., AUG. 8 7:00 p.m. Songs for Naturists at Empire Haven, Moravia NY with Sarva, Ed Thibault, and Bob Salzman Go to OMTSIGofTNS'History.html for a history of The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group SAT., OCT. 25 1:00 p.m. Ciao, Italy! interview with Leonard, Helene, Gregory Mercer and James Sergi on Hofstra radio WRHU, 88.7 FM featuring excerpts from the opera Sacco and Vanzetti as recorded on Original Cast CD OC 4441 ===== --Performances are co-sponsored by The Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science, and the Arts, Inc.-- *Funding from Meet The Composer, Inc. is provided with the support of the N.Y. State Council on the Arts, ASCAP, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, the Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts. **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. Similar funds co-sponsor the Oceanside Chorale, which Leonard conducts in concert SAT. JUN. 7 and SAT. DEC. 6*** at 8:00 p.m. The programs include a number of Lehrman compositions & arrangements. ***Postponed, due to the weather, until SAT. DEC. 20 Bordman Middle School, Oceanside, featuring premieres of Leonard's "We Wish You Peace" and his arrangements of "Tenderly" and Leonard Bernstein's "Sean Song" and "Dream with Me"