HELENE WILLIAMS & LEONARD LEHRMAN PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 2026 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: LeonardJLehrman@gmail.com ================================== Click on underlined dates, titles, and words to watch and hear past performances and read reviews: Jan. 4, 2026 Podcast discussion with Andrew Cortes, "Whisper in the Wings," of Jan. 8-24 NYC orchestral premiere of Leonard's opera, Sima, alternating with his E.G. at Theater for the New City, 155 1st Ave., first 3 weekends in January, 2026 [postponed from November 2025]: Sima Jan. 8, 11, 16, 17, 22, (25, snowed out) E.G. Jan. 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 24 Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8; Sundays at 3. Co-sponsored by The Puffin Foundation. Sat. Feb. 21 Refugee Shabbat Service at Temple Oheb Shalom, South Orange, NJ including performance of "Lady Liberty" by the Solidarity Singers of the NJ Industrial Union Council, led by the composer Sun. Apr. 19 2pm Edgar H. Lehrman Centennial Memorial on Zoom, including screening at 2:30pm of newly-edited, subtitled video of Leonard's opera Sima in its NYC orchestral premiere based on the novella, "Cheta Krasovitskikh" (The Krasovitsky Couple) by David Iakovlevich Aizman, translated from the Russian by Edgar H. Lehrman. Attendance was by invitation and featured call-ins from Paris though not, as hoped for, Berlin, Moscow and Tel Aviv. The celebration of Edgar's life and career is posted here. Featured were cast members past and present Carol Skinner, Paul Gibbons, Julie (Gibbons) Kinschek and Perri Sussman; cousins Alan Wittenberg in Seattle, Jim & Sally Lehrman in California, Michael Lehrman and Martin Bokser in NY; former co-director Glen Becker in Florida; stage manager Geoffrey Carlson, and journalist Yuri Yusov, who wants to translate the opera into Ukrainian. The discussion after the playing of the opera is posted here. Featured were Charles Osborne and Pat & Phil Morehead, all in Ontario, Canada. A link to the opera is available on request. Wed. May 13 9pm Zoom Lecture on Nudity in Opera, for The Naturist Society Foundation Attendance by invitation. Link to video posted here. Sun. May 31 10am at St. James's Episcopal Church, Hyde Park, Leonard performed Massenet's Meditation from THAIS with flutist Russell Urban-Mead and Philip Aaberg's Fantasy on Shenandoah. Viewable here as follows: Massenet: Meditation 3:30-7:52 Russell's acknowledgment 49:01-49:08 Leonard's announcement 50:14-50:59 Aaberg: Shenandoah Fantasy 1:24:01-1:29:07 At Leonard's 55th Harvard Reunion: Wed. June 3 8PM Memorial Church Class Performance included "Lady Liberty" by Christina Starobin & Leonard Lehrman; Thu. June 4 2PM also at Memorial Church, Rick Wilson conducted and Leonard waccompanied the Reunion Choir on the organ in Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus" and Leonard's "Blessing & Prayer for Healing" At 7PM, Helene & Leonard presented A Jewish Musical Dessert Concert at Harvard Hillel, 52 Mt. Auburn St., including A Tribute to Tom Lehrer. Sat. June 27 2pm Court Street Music Annual House Concert, celebrating Emma Goldman's 157th birthday! Attendance by invitation. Wed. July 1 Helene & Leonard will lead a Master Class and perform A Mini-Recital at the Jewish Community Center in Bucharest, Romania. Fri. July 3 at 6:30pm they will perform on a concert of American Music at Bucharest's Galeria Romana, featuring the world premiere in Romanian of "Aventura," Leonard's setting of a poem by Zygmund Tauberg, sung by soprano Simona Nicoletta Jidveanu. Sat. July 11 2:30pm 2nd Beach Performance by the Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group of The Naturist Society Foundation at Gunnison Beach, Sandy Hook, NJ, as part of International Skinny Dip Day including music by Berryman, Lehrer & Lehrman Fri. July 31 Eastern Naturist Gathering, Penn Sylvan, Mohnton, PA Performance by the Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group of The Naturist Society Foundation Sun. Aug. 23 7:30PM Leonard accompanies Michael Niemann in a recital of Jewish vocal music at Congregation Rodef Sholom, 4609 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic City, NJ 08401. Ticket reservations at 609-345-4580 or rodefsholomac@gmail.com --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.