HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2004 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 ================================== FRI., JAN. 9. early evening Naturist Cabaret Part II including world premiere of Leonard's setting of Yeats's "A Coat" at Sunsport Gardens, Loxahatchee, Florida Music Library Association Convention at theCrystal Gateway Marriott 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA THU. FEB. 12. 3:30 p.m. Jewish Music Roundtable lecture/performance: "The Jewish Social Conscience in Music, from Sacco and Vanzetti to the Rosenbergs" and FRI. FEB. 13. 3:30 p.m. Composers/Performers Roundtable lecture/performance including works by Gerhard Bronner, Marc Blitzstein, Elie Siegmeister, and Leonard along with Alan Mandel performing his own and Siegmeister's piano works and Randye Jones sing Negro spirituals, accompanied by Leonard SUN., MAR. 14 2:30 p.m. Recital Honoring Women's History Month featuring Songs & Settings of Poems By & About Women co-sponsored by The Aviva Players Nassau Grants for the Arts* and the Elie Siegmeister Society including works by Mira J. Spektor, Adele Berk, Mary Howe, Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Alma Mahler, Elie Siegmeister and world premieres of settings by Leonard of poems by Rosalie Calabrese, Grace Herman, and Suffolk County Poet Laureate George Wallace at Great Neck House 14 Arrandale Ave., Great Neck, NY Information: (516) 482-0355 FREE SUN., MAR. 28 2:00 p.m. repeat of MAR. 14 program at Long Beach Public Library 111 W. Park Ave., Long Beach, NY Information: (516) 432-7201 FREE SUN., APR. 18 2:00 p.m. Leonard conducts the Workmen's Circle Chorus at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. at 34th St., Manhattan in a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising with Helene as soloist in his setting of Alena Synkova's "I'd Like to Go Away Alone" FRI., APR. 23 5:00 p.m. Explorations in Jewish Music Music on the theme of Yom Hashoah Congregation Kol Ami, 252 Soundview Ave., White Plains, NY Information: (914) 777-1660 SAT., MAY 1 7:00 p.m. An American Labor Songbook II including songs by Blitzstein, Meeropol, Brecht, Lehrer, Rome, Segal & Leonard --also on the program: Anne Feeney & Chris Chandler(!)-- at The American Labor Museum, Botto House National Landmark 83 Norwood Street, Haledon, NJ 07508 presented by Passaic County Cultural & Heritage Council and Meet The Composer** Info: (973) 595-7953 Admission FREE THU., MAY 27 8:00 p.m. Composers Concordance Concert at N.Y.U. 35 W. 4th St. NYC Paul Sperry, tenor, accompanied by Leonard, sings 5 Theodore Chanler Songs and, with Helene, 5 Lehrman Duets, incl. world premiere of "I Went Looking for My Soul" (text: Charles Bernstein) Info: (212) 564-4899 WED., JUN. 9 7:30 p.m. Aviva Players Concert at Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 E. 65th St., NYC including Helene & Leonard in songs by Adele Berk, Lili Boulanger, Mary Howe, Alma Mahler, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann and Mira J. Spektor Info: (212) 362-2277 SUN., JUN. 13 3:00 p.m. Second 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, and David Weber THU., JUN. 17 6:00 p.m. National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case Annual Meeting Helene & The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus and members of the Workmen's Circle Chorus sing Music of Edith Segal arranged, accompanied & conducted by Leonard at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68 St., NYC FREE SUN., JUN. 27 7:30 p.m. First Unitarian Church of Madison, Wisconsin A Marc Blitzstein Cabaret honoring the 135th birthday of Emma Goldman Produced by Meg Skinner, co-sponsored by WORT Info: (608) 233-9774 or 238-6950 or 798-4291 Suggested donation: $10 WED. JULY 14 8:00 p.m. ---Sorry! Cancelled! :<( Music Festival of the Hamptons Lukas Foss, Director featuring world premiere of Leonard's setting of Suffolk County poet laureate George Wallace's Song of Long Island performed by the Oceanside Chorale FRI., JULY 23 7:30 p.m. Northport Library Concert 151 Laurel Ave., Northport, Long Island Tel. (631) 261-6930 part of the Northport Arts Coalition Do-ing Music concert series featuring the world premieres of Leonard's setting of poems by George Wallace, Fay Slavin, Edna St. Vincent Millay and other settings of great poems (Bryant, Dehmel, Dickinson, Goethe, Heine, Shakespeare, and Teasdale) by Brahms, Schubert, Wolf, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Strauss and L.I. composers Adele Berk, Mira J. Spektor, and J. Willard Roosevelt Admission FREE FRI., AUG. 7 7:00 p.m. More Songs for Naturists at Empire Haven, Moravia NY featuring the world premiere of Leonard's "Brando Credo" [on words by Marlon Brando] Go to OMTSIGofTNS'History.html for a history of The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group MON., AUG. 16 7:00 p.m. Kerry Cabaret A Night of Singing and Dancing that Just Might Change the World Helene & Len will perform Len's & Joel Shatzky "Glorious War" and Lou & Peter Berryman's "Acme Forgetting Service" at Jeanne Rimsky Theatre, 232 Main Street, Port Washington, NY Adm. $50, $80 per couple checks payable to Kerry Victory 2004 For further info call John Stillwaggon at (516) 242-0785 SUN., SEP. 12 2:00 p.m. Morris Schappes Memorial 1199 Hall, 310 West 43rd St., Manhattan Helene sings "El Molei Rachamim" Admission FREE SUN., OCT. 3 2:30 p.m. Nadia Boulanger Memorial Concert at theBryant Library 2 Paper Mill Rd., Roslyn, L.I. Tel. (516) 621-2240 Concert of music by Boulanger students: Blitzstein, Diamond, Husa, Robertson, Siegmeister, Lehrman Admission FREE SAT., OCT. 9 4:15 p.m. Nadia Boulanger Memorial Symposium at The American Music Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder Concert of music by Boulanger students: Blitzstein, Diamond, Husa, Robertson, Siegmeister, Lehrman TUE., NOV. 9 7:00 p.m. Marc Blitzstein--Rallying With A Note in series, "Jewish Composers for the Musical Stage," with Robert Sherman, Helene Williams, and Leonard Lehrman, and special guest Bill Castleman hosted by Sidney Gluck for the American Jewish Historical Society and the Sholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., Manhattan The performance will include suites composed for the occasion based on themes from The Cradle Will Rock and Sacco and Vanzetti along with excerpts from those works and others by Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964), edited & completed by Leonard Lehrman Adm. $8/$4 free to AJHS members Info: Tel. 212-255-4774 ===== --Performances [except Aug. 16] 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. Similar funds have co-sponsored the Oceanside Chorale, which Leonard conducts in concert June 5 at the Merle Avenue School and December 11 at the Fortesque Avenue School at 8:00 p.m. in Oceanside, L.I. The programs will include a number of Lehrman compositions & arrangements. **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.