HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2012 We look forward to seeing you! Please contact us AFTER 10 a.m. at (516) 256-4209 or any time at (516) 825-2939 EMAIL: Helene: helenespierman@gmail.com Leonard: ljlehrman@gmail.com ================================== Artscene on Long Island: Shirley Romaine interviews Leonard & Helene on Cable TV Channel 73 (North Hempstead): WED. JAN. 4, 5:00 PM SUN. JAN. 8, 5:30 PM TUE. JAN. 10, 11:00 AM on Cable TV Channel 18 (all of Nassau County & Western Suffolk County): TUE. JAN. 10, 11:00 AM also on Cable TV Channel 64 (North Hempstead): WED. JAN. 25, 5:00 PM SUN. JAN. 29, 5:30 PM TUE. JAN. 31, 11:00 AM on Cable TV Channel 18 (all of Nassau County & Western Suffolk County): TUE. JAN. 31, 11:00 AM The interview is also viewable on YouTube in 3 parts: Pt 1 [including "Memory"] Pt 2 [including "Look to the Rainbow"] Pt 3 [including "Let's Change the Woild!:] SUN. JAN. 15, 5:00 PM Patrice Eaton & Mimi Stern-Wolfe premiere Leonard's setting of Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again" at Downtown Music, St. Marks-in-the-Bowery, 2nd Ave. & 10th St., Manhattan viewable here on YouTube SUN. FEB. 5 5:00 PM Channel 34 & 6:30 PM Channel 56 (Queens, NY) and THU. FEB. 9 10:30AM Manhattan Neighborhood Network Cable: www.mnn.org Cultural Channel The Motyl String Quartet's first performance of Leonard's Suite for String Quartet #2: Remembrance (4 movements) at Kupferberg Center, Queensborough Community College, Kristallnacht Commemoration of Nov. 9, 2011 also watchable here on YouTube. WED. FEB. 8 5:30-7:00 PM Helene & Leonard perform his setting of "Listen" by Walt Whitman, at the Walt Whitman Birthplace 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd., Huntington Station, NY 11746 part of the 15th Annual Decentralization Grants for the Arts Awards Reception, hosted by Huntington Arts Council The performance, and expression of thanks by HAC Exec. Dir. Diana Cherryholmes, may be viewed on YouTube here. SUN. FEB. 12 11:00 AM The United Methodist Church of East Norwich Choir performs Leonard's Second Inaugural in celebration of Lincoln's Birthday SUN. FEB. 26 11:00 AM The Union Church of Bay Ridge Choir performs Hold Fast to Dreams, Leonard's setting of Langston Hughes' poem in honor of African American History Month SUN. MAR. 4, 2:00 PM Leonard & his student Scott Feiner perform the 4-hand suite Leonard wrote for Scott: Theme and Variations: SCott EtAn FEinEr, op 200 at LICA Concert of Music for Students, Freeport Memorial Library Admission FREE SUN. MAR. 4, 5:30 PM Helene sings Leonard's setting of Christina Rossetti's "Remember Me When I Am Gone Away: in memory of Marjorie Gamso, at Merce Cunningham Studios, 55 Bethune Street, Manhattan THU. MAR. 22, 7:30 PM Duo Gastesi-Bezerra performs Lehrman music for 2 pianists, at Helen K. Persson Recital Hall, Vera Lea Rinker Building, 326 Acacia, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL including Leonard's Suite #2: Remembrance viewable here on YouTube Adm. $10; $5 students; Info: 561-803-2400; tkts: 561-803-2970 or email ticketcentral@pba.edu FRI. MAR. 23, 7:00 PM Sunsport Gardens Family Naturist Resort, Loxahatchee FL Helene & Leonard perform Naturist Cabaret (and Tribute to Claude Debussy) including songs by Albert Tepper and Julie Mandel. (Click on their names to see the videos on YouTube. Go to OMTSIGofTNS'History.html for a history of The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group SUN. APR. 1, 3:00 PM LICA presents Songs by Long Island Jewish Composers at Hillwood Recital Hall, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville Soprano Helene Williams, mezzo-soprano Nicole Mitchell, tenor Albert Barouch, baritone Roger Andrews, violinist Marilyn Reynolds, and Herbert Rothgarber, Joel Mandelbaum, and Leonard Lehrman at the piano in music by Ralph Alan Dale, Herbert Deutsch, Tom Lehrer, Leonard Lehrman, Jane Leslie, Julie Mandel, Joel Mandelbaum, Steven Rosenhaus, Herbert Rothgarber, Elie Siegmeister, Mira J. Spektor, Avraham Sternklar and Albert Tepper Co-sponsored by Maldeb Foundation, NYSCA Decentralization and the Russian American Cultural Heritage Center (RACH-C) inaugurating April as Russian American History in New York State, introduced by Manju Prasad-Rao, Director of LIU-Post's Instructional Media Center. (Click on names to see videos on YouTube.) SAT. JUNE 2, 2:30 PM Annual Court Street Music Recital/House Concert performed by Helene, Leonard, and their students: Geraldine Lecessi, Thomas Smith, and Tara Zemel Reservations required: 516-825-2939 SUN. JUNE 10, 2:30 PM A Sesquicentennial Tribute to Claude Debussy (1862-1918) featuring songs and solo piano music performed by Helene & Leonard at Great Neck Library, 159 Bayview Ave., Great Neck NY 11023 Tel. 516-466-8055 FREE SAT. JUNE 16, 7:30 PM American Songbook II with Cantor Charles Osborne, Leonard & Helene, including Charles singing Leonard's "Gather Ye Rosebuds," "How I Met My New Grandfather" from the Blitzstein-Lehrman Idiots First and Helene singing "Tenderly," among other things including a new version of "Charlie on the MTA" Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms, Lords Valley, PA SUN. JUNE 24, 4:00 PM Leonard conducts the Blaue Jungs & Hanseaten Deerns in their Annual Concert at 170 Maple Ave. in East Meadow, NY Adm. $35 incl. Viennese Hour, wine, beer, wurst, concert, dancing Call Jack Maurer at (516) 796-1983 for reservations At the Halifax Summer Opera Workshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia: THU. JULY 26, 8:00 PM Leonard & Helene lead a Master Class focusing on Marc Blitzstein SAT. JULY 28, 8:00 PM Leonard accompanies Helene & others in a Recital of American Arias featuring excerpts from stage works by Blitzstein, Siegmeister and Lehrman WED, AUG. 1, 7:00 PM Leonard & Helene perform A Naturist Cabaret at the Eastern Canadian Naturist Festival, La Pommerie, Quebec Go to OMTSIGofTNS'History.html for a history of The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group FRI. AUG. 3, 7:00 PM Northeast Naturist Festival Leonard & Helene perform A Naturist Cabaret including Music of Protest, Naturism, and Claude Debussy with The Naturist Society's Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group Empire Haven, Moravia NY SUN. AUG. 12, 3:30 PM A Sesquicentennial Tribute to Claude Debussy (1862-1918) featuring songs and solo piano music performed by Helene & Leonard at The Atria, Landing Rd., Roslyn Harbor; Tel. 516-626-6900; 516-484-7689 THU. AUG. 16, 2:00 PM The Jewish Woman in Song at the Oceanside Jewish Community Center; Info: 516-634-4151 SUN. OCT. 7, 10:30 AM Joyce Chang sings Leonard's "Prayer of St. Francis" at All Saints Episcopal Church, Leonia, NJ Russian Opera Mini-Festival: made possible by a grant from NYSCA Decentralization program, administered by Huntington Arts Council SAT. NOV. 10, 8:00 PM The Syosset Public Library [cancelled due to power outages] co-sponsored by Town of Oyster Bay Distinguished Artists Series, presents Helene, Leonard, Gregory Mercer, Ben & Hannah Spierman in Leonard's opera The Wooing on a libretto by Abel Meeropol after Chekhov's The Boor and other Russian opera excerpts in Russian and in English by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev - and Lehrman 225 S. Oyster Bay Rd., Syosset NY 11791 Tel. 516-921-7161 ext. 240 FREE THU. NOV. 15, 2:00 PM Bethpage Public Library Helene & Leonard perform Russian music for voice & piano by Blitzstein, Moussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovitch - and Lehrman 47 Powell Ave., Bethpage NY 11714 Tel. 516-931-3907 ext. 210 FREE SUN. NOV. 18, 2:30 PM The Freeport Memorial Library presents Helene, Leonard, Gregory Mercer, Ben & Hannah Spierman in Leonard's opera The Wooing on a libretto by Abel Meeropol after Chekhov's The Boor and other Russian opera excerpts in Russian and in English by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev - and Lehrman 144 W. Merrick Rd., Freeport NY 11520 Tel. 516-379-3274 ext. 224 FREE SUN. NOV. 18, 7:00 PM Malverne's Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service at Malverne Community Presbyterian Church, 12 Nottingham Rd., Malverne Leonard accompanies the service, including Geri Lecessi in his setting of The Prayer of St. Francis SUN. DEC. 2, 2:00 PM The Bethpage Public Library presents Helene, Leonard, Gregory Mercer, Ben & Hannah Spierman in Leonard's opera The Wooing on a libretto by Abel Meeropol after Chekhov's The Boor and other Russian opera excerpts in Russian and in English by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev - and Lehrman 47 Powell Ave., Bethpage NY 11714 Tel. 516-931-3907 FREE WED. NOV. 21, 10:00am The Broadway You Know & Don't Know presented by The Greens at Melville; Info: George Borsuk 631-367-0047 FRI. DEC. 14, 11:30am The Broadway You Know & Don't Know presented by Molloy College Life Learnng Institute at Temple B'nai Sholom, 100 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre ===== --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.