HELENE WILLIAMS &
LEONARD LEHRMAN
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2023

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: LJLehrmanDMA@gmail.com

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Court Street Music
in association with the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in Valley Stream, NY
proudly presents
*A Third Recital Series on Zoom
in memory of Emily R. Lehrman & Nathaniel S. Lehrman
Tuesday afternoons at 5
with Daniel Hyman, violin/viola; Leonard Lehrman, piano
+Soprano Helene Williams and Hornist Noah Fotis

To attend, please register by emailing hwmlcontact@hotmail.com

Click on dates to watch and hear past programs:

*Tues. Feb. 7 5PM Black History Month - co-sponsored by COMPOSERS NOW!
Blues de la Pluie (Blues of the Rain) world premiere (Aimé Césaire-Leonard Lehrman)
Trio for Violin, Horn & Piano (Johannes Brahms)
Night Journey for Violin, Horn & Piano (Kevin Scott) world premiere commission
Trio #2 for Violin, Cello (arr. Horn) & Piano (Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Fotis)

*Tues. June 27 5PM Students & Teachers + Birthdays of Emma Goldman (154) & Karen Campbell (70)
Music by Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, John Harbison, Stanley Haynes,
Brian Israel, Robert Palmer*, Elie Siegmeister*, Joel Mandelbaum*
and Leonard Lehrman* + Arthur Sullivan's last work, The Emerald Isle
performed by Helene Williams, Dan Hyman, Noah Fotis, Leonard Lehrman
and members of the Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island
*world premieres

Other Court Street Music performances in 2023:



Fri. Feb. 17 7-8PM Midwinter Naturist Festival, Sunsport Gardens, Loxahatchee, FL
Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group of The Naturist Society
Songs of Love & Social Consciousness
Celebrating the Centennial of Martha Schlamme (September 23, 1923 - October 6, 1985)

Wed. Mar. 1 2-3PM Plattduetsche Home, Franklin Square, NY ERL's Centennial
Songs of Love & Social Consciousness
Celebrating the Centennials of Martha Schlamme (September 23, 1923 - October 6, 1985)
and Emily R. Lehrman (March 1, 1923-January 13, 2015)

Sat. Mar. 11 6:30pm United Methodist Church, East Meadow
Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island [GaSOCoLI] Fundraiser
Leonard conducts & accompanies 3 excerpts from Princess Ida,
settings of texts from Tennyson's The Princess, including his own
1965 choral setting of "Sweet and Low," two Tom Lehrer numbers, and excerpts from
The Ballad of Baby Doe, Finian's Rainbow, and Juno,
including "Quarrel Song" with Helene

Leonard conducted the company in Princess Ida
from the piano:
Sun. Apr. 16 2:30pm Great Neck Public Library
Sun. Apr. 30 2pm Bluepoint Public Library, Bayport
Sat. May 6 2pm East Hampton Public Library
Sun. May 21 2:30pm S. Huntington Public Library
Sun. May 28 2pm N. Merrick Public Library
and with orchestra (& chorus):
Sat. June 17 8pm Smithtown Performing Arts Center
Sat. June 24 8pm Rimsky Theater, Port Washington
Sun. June 25 3pm Suffolk JCC, Commack
Sat. July 1 8pm CM Performing Arts Center, Oakdale

Sun. Mar. 19 3:30pm Musicians Club of NY, Victor Borge Hall, Scandinavia House, Manhattan
Helene sings excerpts from 3 Lehrman operas:
Sima, The Triangle Fire, and Sacco and Vanzetti
+2 Songs by Joel Mandelbaum (Shakespeare Sonnet 116
and Angela Grimké's "Under the Days")
plus world premiere of Lehrman/Mandelbaum:
"Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?" (inspired by Emily Dickinson poem)
for clarinet & piano, with clarinetist Bixby Kennedy

Sat. Mar. 25 8pm Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ
Songs of Love & Social Consciousness
Celebrating the Centennial of Martha Schlamme (1923-1985)
with Belle Linda Halpern & The Solidarity Singers of the NJ Industrial Union
Suggested Donation: $10
Reservations: (201) 836-3499

Fri. May 26 Nathaniel S. Lehrman Centennial Gilbert & Sullivan Sing(!)
at Court Street Music, 33 Court Street, Valley Stream, NY

*Sun. July 30 5pm Pagan-Fletcher House, Valley Stream Historical Society Concert
streaming live here
with Violinist/Violist/Baritone Daniel Hyman
including
Labyrinth of Love (Louis Untermeyer-Leonard Lehrman) world premiere
See preview article in Valley Stream Herald here.

*Sun. Aug. 20 5pm Leonard Lehrman Birthday Court Street Music Zoom Concert
See preview article in Valley Stream Herald online here.

Sat. Sept. 23 8-10:15PM Peoples' Voice Cafe (+Film) - Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall, Manhattan
Songs of Love & Social Consciousness
with Belle Linda Halpern, Ron Roy
& The Solidarity Singers of the NJ Industrial Union, Bennet Zurofsky, Director
Celebrating the Centennial of Martha Schlamme (September 23, 1923 - October 6, 1985)
The concert was streamed.
Videos of Martha Schlamme were shown to the live audience,
and can be viewed here.
A preview interview with Bennet, Leonard, Helene & Belle by Chris Owens is posted here.
For tkts go tohttps://aftontickets.com/event/buyticket/zp9kmd5x5v.
For streaming: https://aftontickets.com/Martha-Schlamme-Centennial-Celebration-LIVESTREAM.

--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 Statewide Community Regrant Program,
a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts
with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State
Legislature and administered by The Huntington Arts Council, Inc.