HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2009 We look forward to seeing you! Please contact us AFTER 10 a.m. at 516 256-4209 or 516 626-0238 EMAIL: Helene: helenespierman@verizon.net Leonard: ljlehrman@gmail.com ================================== FRI. JAN. 2 8pm BargeMusic, Brooklyn: Music by Elie Siegmeister & his students ----Stephen Albert, Herbert Deutsch, Daniel Dorff, Stephen Lawrence, ----Leonard Lehrman, Joseph Pehrson, and Michael Shapiro ----voice & piano recital: Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman *SUN. JAN. 4 2:30pm Great Neck House: music by Elie Siegmeister ----voice & piano recital: Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman SAT. JAN. 10 10:15-11:45am National Opera Association convention, Washington DC ----presentation by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios, Jerome Barry, George Shirley, ----Helene & Leonard - and Alan Mandel ----Music by Elie Siegmeister That Was Sung Onstage - Or Could Have Been ----Capitol View Ballroom, Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Arlington VA *SUN. JAN. 11 2:30pm Great Neck Library choral & solo vocal concert ----music by Elie Siegmeister, including his I Have A Dream cantata ----Ivan Thomas, Lars Woodul, Helene Williams, Linda Thompson-Williams ----Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus; ----conducted by founder/director Leonard Lehrman *THU. JAN. 15 7:30pm Massapequa Library (Bar Harbor) American Chamber Ensemble ---Elie at 100--A Master of American Music ----music for woodwinds, piano and voice - ----Naomi Drucker, Denise Lozano Healey, Lynne Cohen, Braden Toan, Marilyn Lehrman ----plus guest artists Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman **MON. JAN. 19 8pm United Methodist Church of Huntington/Cold Spring Harbor ----Siegmeister choral & solo vocal concert: including I Have A Dream cantata ----Ivan Thomas, Lars Woodul, Helene Williams ----Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus; ----conducted by founder/director Leonard Lehrman *THU, JAN. 22 2pm Bethpage Public Library ----Siegmeister voice & piano recital: Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman SUN. JAN. 25 3pm Downtown Music Productions: repeat of I Have A Dream cantata ----Ivan Thomas, Lars Woodul, Helene Williams, Linda Thompson-Williams ----Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus; ----conducted by founder/director Leonard Lehrman ----Mimi Stern-Wolfe, pianist & series producer ----at St. Marks-in-the-Bowery, 2nd Ave. & 10th St., Manhattan Shirley Romaine interviews Helene & Leonard on Art Scene on Long Island Great Neck Ch. 73: WED. FEB. 11, 5pm; SUN. FEB. 15, 5:30pm; WED. MAR. 4, 5pm; SUN. MAR. 7, 5:30pm Woodbury Ch. 18: TUE. FEB. 17, 11am; TUE. MAR. 10, 11am THU. FEB. 12 8pm Music for Piano & Voice Honoring the Birthdays of ---Elie Siegmeister & Abraham Lincoln, ---Gault Recital Hall, Scheide Music Center, College of Wooster, Ohio TUE. FEB. 17 12:30pm Brooklyn College ----Siegmeister voice & piano lecture/recital: Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman THU. FEB. 19 8pm Gershwin Hotel, 7 E. 27 St., Manhattan Kathryn Wieckhorst performs Leonard's A Girl Without Morals FRI. FEB. 27, 2009 11am Bernstein & Blitzstein: The Jewish Connection at Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton, Wimberly Library, 5th floor Info: 561-297-0245; Order tkts ($8 gen. adm.) at 1-800-564-9539 ext.3 or 954-462-0222 SAT. FEB. 28, 2009 8pm Sunsport Gardens Family Naturist Resort, Loxahatchee FL Helene & Leonard perform cabaret program honoring Anne Fisher's birthday Carried Away ~ In the Nude Reservations & Directions: 1-800-551-7217 *SUN. MAR. 8 3pm Syosset Public Library ----Siegmeister voice & piano recital: Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman THU. MAR. 12 4pm Long Island Arts Council at Freeport ---2009 Nassau Grants for the Arts Awards Reception ---Helene & Leonard perform Two Songs of the City SAT. MAR. 21 11:15am-12N Siegmeister voice & piano lecture/recital by Leonard & Helene ----at Society for American Music Convention, Marriott Hotel, Denver, Colorado *SUN. MAR. 29 2pm Hofstra Celebrates Elie Siegmeister at 100 presented by Hofstra Cultural Center as part of the Joseph G. Astman International Concert Series: Musical Tributes Performances by Hofstra faculty, staff and guest artists ----Robert Spiotto narrates "Dick Whittington & His Cat." Other performers to include ----Donna Balson, Chandler Carter, Herbert Deutsch, Nancy Deutsch, Naomi Drucker, ----Tammy Hensrud, Gregory Mercer, Leonard Lehrman, Helene Williams at Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Ave., South Campus Tkts: $18 gen. adm.; $15 seniors; $15 non-Hofstra students; $10 children; One FREE ticket with current faculty/staff/student HofstraCard. Info: 516-463-5669; Tkts: 516-463-6644 M-F 11am-3:45pm SUN. APR. 19 3pm Queens College Choral Room ----solo vocal & piano music by Elie Siegmeister & his students TUE. MAY 26 5:30pm E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia A Celebration of The Women's Section of the Walter J. Lear U.S. Health Activism History collection of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the U.S. Health Left History Center Info: 215-386-5327 FREE THU. JUNE 18 6:30pm Annual meeting of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case at Tamiment Library (8th floor), New York University 70 Washington Square South. This year, commemorating the 70th wedding anniversary of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, Helene will perform "John Reed" by Abel Meeropol & Elie Siegmeister, "My Loved One" by Edith Segal, and "Conspirator Reality" from Alger, the opera in progress by Leonard & Kim Rich. Mara Goodman, Bill Castleman, and members of the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus will perform "Conscience" by Leonard & Abel Meeropol. Miriam Moskowitz and David Alman will read from their books in progress. SAT. JUNE 27, 2009 3:00pm Annual Court Street Music Recital Performances by voice, piano, and composition students of Helene & Leonard featuring music by Elie Siegmeister performed by Ijeoma Merenini, George Mirra, Diana Parau & Jordan Witter Reservations required: 516-825-2939 SAT. JULY 18, 2009 3:00pm Play It Tenderly: Walter Gross Centennial House Concert Performances by Helene, Leonard, Ben Spierman and Hannah Rosenbaum +Vintage Recordings of Walter himself, and others Reservations required: 516-825-2939 THU. AUG. 6, 2009 7:30pm Naturist Songs "en franglais" III at the Eastern Canadian Naturist Festival, Bare Oaks, Ontario Go to OMTSIGofTNS'History.html for a history of The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group SAT. AUG. 8, 2009 8:00PM Northeast Naturist Festival 20th Anniversary Naturist Concert Extravaganza of The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group honoring the Elie Siegmeister Centennial and the memory of Lee Baxandall Empire Haven, Moravia NY SUN. AUG. 9, 2009 1:30PM NY Green Fest Celebrates the Elie Siegmeister Centennial and Other Music Relevant for Our Time with Helene Williams, soprano & Leonard Lehrman, piano Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center, Alfred University, Alfred NY Info: 607-569-2114 SUN. AUG. 16, 2009 3:00pm Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms, Lord's Valley, PA and THUR. AUG. 20, 2009 7:30pm Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY 60th Birthday Celebration Concerts Music of Charles Osborne & Leonard Lehrman performed by them with Helene Williams, Faith Steinsnyder, David Perper & Chorus(es) Telecast on Woodbury Area Channel 20 THU. DEC. 3 [Pt 1] & THU. DEC.10 [Pt 2] 10:30pm THU. OCT. 22, 2009 6pm Hofstra Conference on Suburban Diversity Opening Banquet, Mack Student Center, North Campus Leonard accompanies Jeannine Otis in "Chalk Marks on the Sidewalk" by Langston Hughes & Elie Siegmeister and"Long Island Just Isn't Long Enough" by Marcia McNair & Leonard Lehrman SUN. OCT. 25, 2009 6:30pm Leonard accompanies Cantor Barry Black et al in a Tango Concert at Jericho Jewish Center WED. OCT. 28, 2009 8pm 30 Waverly, corner University, New York University music by Elie Siegmeister & his students, presented by Michael Beckerman: ----Stephen Albert, Tom Cipullo, Herbert Deutsch, Gerald Humel, Stephen Lawrence, Leonard Lehrman, Joseph Pehrson, Michael Shapiro, Richard White SUN. NOV. 8 10:00am premiere of Leonard's setting of The Prayer of St. Francis United Methodist Church, Huntington/Cold Spring Harbor 180 West Neck Rd., Huntington [repeated at Interfaith Thanksgiving Service at UMCHCSH, SUN. NOV. 22 7:00 pm and at Martin Luther King Memorial Interfaith Service at St. Hughes, Huntington, SUN., JAN. 17 4:00 pm] SUN. NOV. 8 2:30pm Play It Tenderly: Walter Gross Centennial Celebration Performances by Helene, Leonard, Ben Spierman and Hannah Rosenbaum +Vintage Recordings & Films of Walter himself, and others Long Beach Public Library 111 W. Park Ave., Long Beach, NY Info: 516-432-7201 FREE THU. DEC. 3 [Pt 1] & THU. DEC.10 [Pt 2] 10:30pm Long Island Alternative Media, Channel 20 broadcasts the 60th Birthday Celebration Concert Music of Charles Osborne & Leonard Lehrman recorded by Bob Goldberg Aug. 20, 2009 at the Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY performed by them with Helene Williams, Faith Steinsnyder, David Perper and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus SUN. DEC. 6 2pm Robert Spiotto narrates Dick Whittington & His Cat with Herbert Deutsch, Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman in Music by Siegmeister, Deutsch & Lehrman Connetquot Library, 760 Ocean Ave., Bohemia NY Tel. 631-567-5079 Telecast on Woodbury Area Channel 20 THU. JAN. 28 [Pt 1] & THU. FEB. 4 [Pt 2] 10:30pm WED. Dec. 9 6:15pm Reception, 8pm Concert: Liebe: Great Yiddish Love Songs Barry Black, Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman Yiddish Artists & Friends Actors Club Benefit 225 E. 51 St., Manhattan; $36 Info: Ruth Harris (516) 569-1678 Also in 2009, Leonard Lehrman gave a podcast interview to Gene Pritzker & Charles Coleman (aka "Noisepunk and Das Krooner") which can be heard by clicking here, in which he talked extensively about Siegmeister. The interview begins a little over a minute in. ===== --Performances are co-sponsored by The Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science, and the Arts, Inc., co-sponsored by Maldeb Foundation. *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. **Co-sponsored by Maldeb Foundation All Siegmeister Centennial concerts co-sponsored by The Puffin Foundation.