HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2015 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 or lehrmanfamilyreunion@gmail.com ================================== Lecture/Seminar Series on Jewish Opera in memory of Emily R. Lehrman (Mar. 1, 1923-Jan. 13, 2015) at Community Church, 40 E. 35th St., Manhattan, 2-3:30PM: TUE. JAN. 20 on Dr. King, Siegmeister, Blitzstein, Malamud WED. FEB. 25 on Dybbuks - by Morgulas, Mandelbaum, Rocca, Bernstein, Tamkin, Ran WED. MAR. 18 on Biblical Women - by Elizabeth Hoffman, Elizabeth Swados et al WED. APR. 22 on the Holocaust - by Amram, Mandelbaum, Spektor, Hamer et al WED. MAY 13 on Emma Goldman (commemorating the 75th anniversary of her death) - by Zinn, Fine, Lehrman Click here for videos of the 5 lectures. Midwinter Naturist Festival at Sunsport, Loxahatchee FL: FRI. FEB. 13 7PM Screening of 1995 video of Adam & Lilith & Eve SAT. FEB. 14 11AM Reading of Adam & Lilith & Eve SUN. FEB. 15 1:30PM Workshop: "Free Your Voice"; 8-9:30PM Naturist CaBAREt Click here for excerpts from the concert. WED. APR. 1 7:30PM LICA concert at Queens College, featuring world premiere of Discourse, begun in 1933 by Marc Blitzstein, completed in 2005 by Leonard Lehrman Click here for an audio recording of the piece's premiere. WED. APR. 8 [postponed to October 3] LICA concert at Cradle of Aviation, Garden City, including Lehrman's "The Waning Moon" for woodwind quintet (world premiere) TUE. MAY 12 7:30 PM Mendelssohn Glee Club at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue performs NYC premiere of Lehrman's setting of Pete Seeger's "The Stairway" - in memory of Pete Viewable on YouTube here. SUN. MAY 31 2:00 PM world premiere of "A Villanelle for Emily" Leonard's setting of poem by Orel Protopopescu in memory of Emily Lehrman sung by Helene at LICA concert, S. Huntington Library, 145 Pidgeon Hill Rd. SUN. JUNE 21 3:00 PM Annual Court Street Music House Concert/Student Recital featuring Tom Smith, Nathaniel S. Lehrman, Helene & Leonard in memory of Emily Lehrman & Ronnie Gilbert (1926-2015) at 33 Court Street, Valley Stream, NY. Viewable on YouTube here. TUE. JULY 28-THU. JULY 30 Northeast Naturist Festival, Empire Haven, Moravia, NY Screening, Playreading, Workshop and Naturist CaBARET Concert Click here for excerpts from the concert. THU. AUG. 13 2:00 PM Songs & Piano Music of Johannes Brahms at Bethpage Public Library, 47 Powell Ave., Bethpage NY 11714 FREE Viewable on YouTube here. MON. SEPT. 7 2:25 PM Janet Coleman interviews Leonard & Helene on WBAI Cat Radio Click here for photo and links to audio of interview and musical excepts referred to in it. SAT. OCT. 3 7:30 PM LICA concert at Cradle of Aviation, Garden City, including Lehrman's "The Waning Moon" for woodwind quintet (world premiere) conducted by the composer. Click here for a video of the performance. Click here for 4 excerpts from and introductions at the concert. Songs of Conscience concerts performed by The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus in memory of Emily R. Lehrman including excerpts from Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka in English and premieres of works by Blitzstein, Rothgarber & Tom Smith --*SUN. OCT. 18 2:30PM at Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Rd., Freeport NY with Helene Williams, Gregory Mercer, Perri Sussman, Jackie Bakewell and Michelle Pellegrino Wallace as the Little Mermaid. Click here for videos of the concert. --*SUN. NOV. 1 2:30PM at Bryant Library, Paper Mill Rd., Roslyn NY with Helene Williams, David Anchel, Leslie Middlebrook, Kathryn Wieckhorst and Jackie Bakewell as the Little Mermaid SAT. NOV. 14 3:00 PM Queens College CUNY, Aaron Copland School of Music, Rm 226 Open Dress Rehearsal of Opera [see NOV. 22 below] WED. NOV. 18 1:40 PM Queens College CUNY, Aaron Copland School of Music, Rm 263 Lecture by Prof. Caryl Emerson on Rusalki, Pushkin, Dargomyzhsky & the 20th Century Posted on YouTube here. SUN. NOV. 22 Queens College CUNY, Aaron Copland School of Music, Rm 264 --2:15 PM Dedication of Plaque honoring Emily R. Lehrman --2:30 PM Premiere in concert with piano of Rusalka --opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky after Alexander Pushkin --English translation by Emily & Leonard Lehrman in memory of Emily R. Lehrman - FREE with Helene Williams, David Anchel, Gregory Mercer, Perri Sussman, Kathryn Wieckhorst, Jackie Bakewell and the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus conducted from the piano by Leonard Lehrman, assisted by Markus Kaitila preceded by US premiere of Lehrman's setting of Pushkin's "Winter Morning" sung by Anastasiya Roytman, accompanied by the composer Click here for the complete opera, performed Nov. 22, 2015 at Queens College. Click here for the Dec. 3, 2015 Queens Chronicle review. SAT. DEC. 19 2:00 PM Duo Concert at Burman Commons, 2026 Womack Rd., Dunwoodie (Atlanta) GA ===== --Performances are co-sponsored by The Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science, and the Arts, Inc., and co-sponsored by The Maldeb Foundation. * made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Huntington Arts Council, Inc.