HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2020 We look forward to seeing you! Please contact us at (516) 825-2939 or, if busy, AFTER 10 a.m. only, at (516) 256-4209 EMAIL: Helene: helenespierman@gmail.com Leonard: ljlehrman@nassaulibrary.org Click on the underlined, hypertexted titles & dates for posted pages & videos. ================================== SUN. JAN. 12 2:30 PM Birthday Party and Memorial for Josh Minkin & Emily Lehrman, commemorating the 5th anniversary of her death including two settings of "A Woman of Valor" (sad and happy) and world premiere of "Love" by Zygmund Tauberg (Romanian poetry) & Leonard Lehrman (Music & Eng. tr.) 1st Floor Lounge, Tuttle Center of The Amsterdam at Harborside 300 E. Overlook, Port Washington, NY - By Invitation. THU. JAN. 23 Art Song Salon Thomas Smith sings music by Leonard Lehrman accompanied by the composer, Upper West Side. By Invitation. FRI. FEB. 14 7:00 PM Naturist CaBARET for Valentine's Day at Sunsport Gardens, Loxahatchee, FL Midwinter Naturist Festival, with LaDonna Allison & Bill Pacer, including world premiere of Leonard's Romanian Song Cycle on poems by Mihai Eminescu and Zygmund Tauberg. By Invitation. SUN. MAR. 22 3:30 PM Musicians' Club of NY Concert at Scandinavia House, Victor Borge Hall, 58 Park Ave at 38th Street, Manhattan Helene sings excerpts from 4 Lehrman operas: Sima, The Triangle Fire, and A Loveletter from Rosa Luxemburg +2 Songs by Joel Mandelbaum and world premiere of Lehrman/Mandelbaum "Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?" for clarinet & piano, with clarinetist Bixby Kennedy - (postponed) FRI. APR. 3 7:30 PM 20th Anniversary Tribute to Michael Niemann - (postponed) High Holidays Cantorial Soloist, The Metropolitan Synagogue, 40 E. 35 St. with Gerald Brown, Helene Williams, Sarah Blaze, Johnny Long, Charles S. Brown and Leonard Lehrman, in music by Lehrman and others. WED. MAY 13 12N Zoom Interview, posted on YouTube May 20, for Center Makor, Brookline, Mass.: Vladimir Foygelman interviews Leonard & Helene, who perform Lehrman's "Benediction" (Aleksandr Blok, in Russian), "Kalinin Bridge" (Joel Shatzky, in memoriam Ivan Krichevsky), "Quartet" (Ivan Krylov, in Russian), "Pity the Nation" (Lawrence Ferlinghetti); Sergei Slonimsky's Prelude #1; Natalya Medvedovskaya's "Within Me Music Would Resound" (Efim Medvedovskiy, tr. Lehrman); and Lehrman's "Coming to Life at the York" (Barbara Kahn) MAY 28-JUNE 2 Bucharest Yiddish Music Festival - (postponed) SAT. JUNE 6 7:00 PM Court Street Music Annual House Concert in memoriam Nathaniel S. Lehrman (d. Jan. 19, 2020) & Kurt Behnke (d. Mar. 31, 2020) with clarinetist Bixby Kennedy (by remote) performing Lehrman's 7 Hiroshima Meditations for solo clarinet, inspired by and in memory of Lee Baxandall; violinist Daniel Hyman, Helene & Leonard. Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Hyman, Lehrman, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, & the Berrymans! Viewable on YouTube at https://tinyurl.com/6Jun2020 FRI. JULY 31 Naturist CaBAREt including Lutz Mayer's Damn! That Apple! and excerpts from Lehrman's Superspy!: The S-e-c-r-e-t Musical in memory of librettist Joel Shatzky (Nov. 30, 1943-Apr. 3, 2020) at Sentient Festival, Empire Haven, Moravia NY with LaDonna Allison & Bill Pacer. Festival cancelled. Performances postponed to Feb. 2021 Midwinter Naturist Festival in Florida, Aug. 21, 2021 at Center for the Arts in Homer, NY, and Eastern Naturist Gathering in Massachusetts, Aug. 2021 SUN. SEP. 13 6:00 PM Hofstra Italian Festival [postponed, probably to 2021] NY premiere of Sacco and Vanzetti, opera begun by Marc Blitzstein, completed by Leonard Lehrman at Monroe Auditorium, conducted by Lehrman, directed by Benjamin Spierman starring Gregory Mercer, Lars Woodul, Helene Williams, Perri Sussman, Sarah Blaze, Jackie Bakewell, Kevin Courtemanche, Thomas Smith, Brendan Rorke, Michael Riley, Jack White, Michael Niemann, Charles Samuel Brown, and Bill Castleman with Kiernan & Charlotte Brown, and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus. 5:30 PM Pre-Performance Lecture by Prof. Mary Anne Trasciatti MON., SEP. 28 2:00PM Yom Kippur Afternoon Concert of Metropolitan Synagogue with cellist Mark Humburg, pianist Leonard Lehrman moved from Community Church of NY to Victor Borge Hall, Scandinavia House cancelled FRI. OCT. 2 7:00 PM Walt Whitman Birthplace, Huntington Musical settings by Blitzstein, Lehrman, and Thomas Smith of Whitman, George Wallace & other poets from LI & in translation sung by Michael Niemann & Helene Williams, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman presented on Zoom; watchable at https://tinyurl.com/2Oct2020. SUN. OCT. 18 3:00 PM Community Church of NY 40 E. 35 St., NYC premiere of Sacco and Vanzetti, with same cast as above. [postponed, probably to 2021] SUN. DEC. 13 2:30 PM Beethoven Semiquincentennial Concert via the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library and the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in Valley Stream with Helene Williams and the Dakule Trio. FREE! - on Zoom Reservations begin Nov. 12: (516) 922-1212 or email mdodson@oysterbaylibrary.org or hwmlcontact@hotmail.com THU. DEC. 16 7:00 PM Beethoven Semiquincentennial via the Long Beach Public Library with Helene Williams and the Dakule Trio. FREE! on Zoom Introductions from Dec. 16 and the full program from Dec. 13 are posted here. THU. 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.