HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2005 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. 7 6-7pm Marc Blitzstein Cabaret at National Opera Association convention, Roosevelt Hotel, New York City Marilyn Govich, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios, Mary Kay McGarvey, Henry Price, Marie Robinson, George Shirley Evelyn Swensson, JoElyn Wakefield, and Kenneth Wood accompanied by Leonard Lehrman Adm. $25 (or $100 for the whole day's sessions); students $20/day Advance reservations/registrations at www.noa.org THU., JAN. 20 7pm Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman at the Jewish Museum, South Beach Jewish Music with a Florida Connection co-sponsored by a Meet The Composer grant from the Southern Arts Federation For information: Tel. 305-672-5044 x21 FRI., JAN. 21 7pm Naturist Cabaret Part III Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman at Sunsport Gardens, Loxahatchee, Florida SUN., JAN. 23 2pm at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman Jewish Music with a Florida Connection co-sponsored by a Meet The Composer grant from the Southern Arts Federation For information: Tel. 561-461-2332 SUN., JAN. 29, 2005 c. 2:15-3:30pm Marc Blitzstein Workshop --part of the People's Music Network Songs of Freedom & Struggle Gathering with Helene Williams, Victoria Tralongo, Leonard Lehrman, the Workmen's Circle Chorus, theThe Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus and the Solidarity Singers of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council at the Renaissance School, 35-59 81st St., Jackson Heights, Queens For further info call David Tarlo at 718-788-8501 or Steve Suffet at 718-786-1533 SUN., FEB. 27 3pm Great Neck House 14 Arrandale Av., Great Neck NY* SAT., MAR. 5 8pm People's Voice Cafe, 45 E. 33 St., Manhattan & SUN., MAR. 6 3pm Queens College, Choral Rm, Aaron Copland School of Music Blitzstein Centennial program, including solo & choral music, a few world premieres (incl. 2 excerpts from Mahagonny in Blitzstein's translation) and I've Got the Tune - in Leonard Lehrman's 1970 adaptation featuring the Workmen's Circle Chorus, the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus and the Solidarity Singers of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council as well as soloists Helene Williams, Lorinda Lisitza, Josh Minkin, Lars Woodul, Robert Osborne accompanied by Leonard Lehrman, John Craven, and percussionist Don Levine funded in part by The Puffin Foundation and a Special Opportunity Stipend grant from the East End Arts Council & NYFA WED., MAR. 2, 2005 7:30pm Blitzstein Symposium with Francis Thorne, Ned Rorem, Joan Peyser, Joseph Stein, Eric Salzman Helene Williams, Bill Castleman & Leonard Lehrman perform music written and/or inspired by Blitzstein, including excerpts from Regina, New York Opera, Goloopchik, Idiots First, Juno, and Reuben Reuben and Sacco and Vanzetti and Blitzstein sings "The Nickel Under the Foot" on a recently-discovered tape! at Brecht Forum, 451 West St. (corner of Bank St.), Westbeth in Manhattan Info: 212-242-4201 MON., MAR. 28, 2005 WBAI 99.5 FM NY "Arts Magazine" Janet Coleman interviews Leonard Lehrman on the Blitzstein Centennial SUN. APR. 3, 2005 2pm Blitzstein/Bernstein Cabaret* with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman at Long Beach Public Library, 111 W. Park Ave., Long Beach NY Info: 516-432-7201 postponed!... FRI.-SAT. APR. 8-9, 2005 Triple Sec, the first Blitzstein opera, performed on double bill with Lehrman's The Wooing at Mercyhurst College, Erie PA; also by the After Dinner Opera Co. in NY City [Date & Place TBA] Info: 212-477-6212 SUN. APR. 10, 2005 3pm Choral Room, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College Lillian Hellman Centennial lecture & mini-recital Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman perform excerpts from Regina & Candide including the world premiere of "Addie's Lullaby," cut from Regina SAT. JUNE 4, 2005 8pm Blitzstein/Bernstein Concert* with the Oceanside Chorale, conducted by Leonard Lehrman at Merle Avenue School, Oceanside, Long Island SUN. JUNE 12, 2005 2:30pm Blitzstein/Bernstein Cabaret* with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman at Jericho Public Library, 1 Merry Lane, Jericho Info: 516-935-6790 THU.-FRI. JUNE 16-17 after 12 Midnight "Radio Unnameable," Bill Propp, producer, presents The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus on WBAI 99.5 FM & wbai.org featuring excerpts from CDs including works by Meeropol, Blitzstein, Siegmeister, Lehrman, and others THU. JUNE 23, 2005 6-8pm National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case Annual Meeting Leonard performs Marc Blitzstein's "Innocent psalm for the Bernstein baby" (1953) in honor of the birth of Julian Meeropol Ambrose, the Rosenbergs' first great-grandchild; Helene sings Edith Segal's "My Loved One" and members of The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus, The Oceanside Chorale, and the Christ Church Babylon Choir sing the words of Abel Meeropol (Leonard's "Conscience"; "Lost Forever"; and Earl Robinson's "The House I Live In") arranged, accompanied & conducted by Leonard at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68 St., NYC FREE. Info: 917-846-6721 or visit http://rosenbergtrial.org SUN., JUN. 26 3:00 p.m. Third Annual Court Street Music Recital of Our Students at our home, 33 Court Street, Valley Stream, NY featuring Ijeoma Merenini, Jasmine Choi, Rachel Ling, and David Weber in works by Arlen, Blitzstein, Gach, Lehrman, Offenbach, and Weber THU., AUG. 11 7:00 p.m. 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, Susan Blake, and Leonard at the piano at the Eastern Naturist Festival, Empire Haven, Moravia NY Go to OMTSIGofTNS'History.html for a history of The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group SUN., AUG. 28 7:30 p.m. The Bush Vacation Ruination Celebration: Long Island Support for Cindy Sheehan Benefit Concert at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, featuring (in alphabetical order):  Lisa Fishbein, Leonard Lehrman & Helene Williams in the world premiere of "Threescore Years Ago," Mark Levy, Spirit Child of Movement in Motion (hip-hop poet), Sunny Meadows (Blacklisted & Banned), Jorge Renderos, Martha Trachtenberg, Très Blue, Max Wheat (poet), Judith Zweiman. Suggested donation: $12. Info: 631-423-7611 FRI., SEP. 2, 2005 7:00 p.m. Lecture on Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, sponsored by Dept. of Theatre, Film and Dance THU.-FRI., OCT. 20-21, 2005 Blitzstein Lecture-Recital, Concert & Master Class American Music Research Center, Boulder, CO Th. 10/20 2pm Blitzstein piano music recital in Grusin Hall, under the auspices of the piano faculty, Prof. David Korevaar, chair. Info: (303) 492-6256 Fri. 10/21 12N-12:45pm lecture-recital on Blitzstein's works for the Center for Humanites & Arts; free and open to the public. Info: (303) 735-0237 Fri. 10/21 8pm at First Congregational Church, Broadway & Pine Streets: Blitzstein song recital. Info: (303) 442-1787 THU., OCT. 27, 2005 3:00 p.m. --postponed due to Hurricane Wilma... A Jewish-American Oktoberfest: A Yiddishe Momme in Wagner's Backyard at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Info: (561) 461-2332 TUE., NOV. 1, 2005 8:00 p.m. The Composer's Voice presented by Vox Novus, including Lehrman's "March for Ben [Bunch]& Mary Beth [Armes]"--U.S. premiere and "Spiele" (text by Peter Maiwald)--world premiere of version for voice & guitar; performed by Beth Griffith & Oren Fader at Collective Unconscious, 279 Church St., Manhattan Marc Blitzstein Piano Music Recital: WED., NOV. 2, 2005 2:00 p.m. at Bryant Library, 2 Paper Mill Rd., Roslyn; Info: 516-621-2240 FRI. NOV. 4, 2005 3:00 p.m. at Queens College; Info: 718-997-3800 ===== --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.