HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2019 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@nassaulibrary.org Click on the underlined, hypertexted dates for videos posted of the performances. ================================== In conjunction with the Feb. 1 release of the new Toccata Classics CD: Solo Piano Music by Marc Blitzstein performed by Leonard Lehrman including the melodrama "Hollywood and Vine" from Show performed by Helene & Leonard The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus presents the world premieres of Marc Blitzstein's Children's Cantata: "Workers' Kids of the World Unite!" (1934) [Jan. 13, 20 & 26] Leonard Lehrman's A Loveletter from Rosa Luxemburg performed in English by Helene Williams with flutist Barbara Novick [Jan. 13, 15, 20, 26] and Lehrman's & Joel Mandelbaum's setting of Emily Dickinson's "Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?" sung by Perri Sussman [Jan. 15 & 20] along with the complete score of the Brecht-Eisler Roundheads & Pointedheads --translation & adaptation by Leonard Lehrman & Bill Castleman [Jan. 13, 20, 26] "There Had to Be a Revolution" by Leonard Bernstein & Charlie Stern [Jan. 15] "Park Bench" by Elie Siegmeister & Langston Hughes [Jan. 13, 20, 26] "Conscience" by Leonard Lehrman & Abel Meeropol [Jan. 13] and the Finale from Elie Siegmeister's I Have A Dream Cantata [Jan. 13, 20, 26] with soloists Helene Williams, Charles Samuel Brown, Michael Niemann, Thomas Smith, Bill Castleman, John Callison, Sarah Blaze, Perri Sussman, Karin Weibert, Brendan Rorke, and Jackie Bakewell. SUN. JAN. 13 4:00 PM Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck NJ, Adm. $10 TUE. JAN. 15 2:30 PM Gallery of Community Church, 28 E. 35 St., NYC (preview tea). Donation Requested --including Siegmeister's "3 Elegies for Federico Garcia Lorca" and "Strange Funeral in Braddock" SUN. JAN. 20 2:30 PM Hall of Worship, Community Church, 40 E. 35 St., NYC. Donation Requested Review by Mark Zuckerman for SoundWordSight.com posted here. SAT. JAN. 26 2:30 PM Long Beach Public Library, 111 W. Park Ave., Long Beach NY FREE Other performances of A Loveletter from Rosa Luxemburg, sung by Kathryn Wieckhorst in German, directed by Dirk Schattner: SAT. FEB. 9 at Altes Zollamt in Rothenburgsort, Hamburg, Germany and THUR. OCT. 10 at Lüneburg New Music Festival, with Festival Director Helmut Erdmann as flutist FRI. FEB. 1 6:30PM Schott Music House, London, England: CD Launch Party for new Toccata Classics CD: Solo Piano Music by Marc Blitzstein performed by Leonard Lehrman --along with Helene Williams in melodrama and songs written in London, performed there for the first time! ================================== FRI. FEB. 15 7:00 PM Naturist CaBARET at Sunsport Gardens, Loxahatchee, FL Midwinter Naturist Festival, with LaDonna Allison & Bill Pacer. SUN. MAR. 24 3:30 PM Musicians' Club of NY Concert at Scandinavia House, Victor Borge Hall, 58 Park Ave at 38th Street, Manhattan Helene sings 4 Lehrman songs in Russian, Ladino, German and Yiddish Holocaust Remembrance Day Concerts THU. May 2 7:00 PM at Temple Beth Sholom, Roslyn Cantor Ofer Barnoy premieres Lehrman's setting of Zev Steinberg's "What's Your Name?" and SUN. May 5 7:00 PM at Trinity Church, Roslyn Sarah Blaze premieres Lehrman's "My Thoughts Will Not Rest" and members of The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus perform other music by Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, David Geppert & Leonard Lehrman Donation Requested. SUN. JUNE 9 3:00 PM Court Street Music Annual House Concert/Student Recital with students Catherine Neville (recorder, clarinets, sax) and Thomas Smith (tenor); Daniel Hyman (violin), Kurt Behnke (cello), Helene & Leonard. By Invitation. SUN. JUNE 23 7:00 PM Dakule Trio at Trinity Church, Roslyn. Music of Beethoven, Robertson, Blitzstein, Lehrman, and Schumann Donation Requested. THU. JUNE 27 9AM-4PM Emma Goldman Sesquicentennial Celebration, Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan Our presentation is at 3PM. FRI. JUNE 28 7:30 PM Emma Goldman/Blitzstein/Bernstein/Berryman Concert at First Unitarian Society of Madison, Wisconsin FRI. AUG. 2 7:00 PM Naturist CaBAREt at Empire Haven, Moravia NY with LaDonna Allison & Bill Pacer. Warning! Some numbers are Age-restricted! SUN. AUG. 18 7:00 PM 70th Birthday Concert at Trinity Church, Roslyn with The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus, Charles Osborne, et al. Donation Requested. Review by Pat Lamanna posted here. TUE. AUG. 20 7:00 PM Celebrating "Two Leonards" - Bernstein & Lehrman at Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library, with Helene Williams, Caryn Hartglass and the Dakule Trio. FREE! Reservations begin July 20: (516) 922-1212 MON. SEP. 16 11AM Celebration of the Life of Norman Ray Eaton at Eskaton in Carmichael (near Sacramento), California Helene & Leonard premiered Leonard's "3Nash4Norman," a song cycle on poems by Norman's favorite poet, Ogden Nash. The entire event is posted here. Leonard's introduction here. The song cycle here. SAT. OCT. 5 7:30PM Theodore Roosevelt Centenary Concert at Oyster Bay High School with Sagamore Hill Band conducted by Stephen Walker and Leonard Lehrman, Piano Soloist WED., OCT. 9 2:00PM Yom Kippur Afternoon Concert of Metropolitan Synagogue with cellist Mark Humburg, pianist Leonard Lehrman at Community Church of NY, premiering Lehrman's 7-movement Cello-Piano Suite #4 THU.-FRI. OCT. 10 & 11 at 7PM Leonard's music performed at the Lueneburg Festival of New Music: On Thursday, Kathryn Wieckhorst sings his Ein Liebesbrief von Rosa Luxemburg On Friday, his Duet for Flute & Clarinet, op. 17 is performed. THU. OCT. 17 6:30PM Helene & Leonard perform Celebrating Jewish Women in Song in Yiddish, Hebrew and English, with Peninah Zilberman interpreting in Romanian at the Municipal Cultural Center of Sighet, Romania. Admission FREE TUE. DEC. 24 7:00PM Helene sings "O Holy Night" as anthem at Christmas Eve Service, Christ Lutheran Church, Rosedale, Queens. ===== --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.