Online Videos with Leonard J. Lehrman
[in chronological order, most recent first]
For lectures, click here; for cabaret performances, click here.
For Court Street Music concerts, click here.

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Leonard Lehrman 75th Birthday Concert, Hewlett-Woodmere Library, Aug. 20, 2024
Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/20240820HWL
For a review of concert go to https://www.soundwordsight.com/2024/09/a-concert-with-leonard-j-lehrman-reviewed-by-jonathan-dzik
01 Marie Drucker Intro
02 Intro Naydus
03 In the Evening
04 In der Fremd
05 Intro Eminescu
06 Eminescu #1
07 Eminescu #2
08 Eminescu #3
09 Intro Basel
10 So Low (danced)
11 Dawn in New York (danced)
12 Intro E.G.
13 Where Do I Belong? (E.G.)
14 If I Can't Dance (E.G). (danced)
15 Intro SIMA
16 Lyuba's Aria (SIMA)
17 Regina's Mea Culpa Aria (SIMA)
18 Intro LICA
19 Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (danced)
20 Intro Skovron
21 Credo
22 The Last Word (danced)
23 Intro York
24 Poets in Their Own Hometown
25 Osborne's Psalm 122
26 Intro Haikus
27 12 Jewish Haikus
28 Intro Z's Daughters
29 Zelophehad's Daughters (danced)
30 Happy Birthday


Bryant Library Woman Composer Sunday + LJL's 75th Birthyear Concert
Mar. 10, 2024 with Helene, Perri Sussman, Beth Jucovy, Daniel Barna,
Link Rossano, Craig Lindsay, Daniel Hyman, Peter Howard
Playlist (including introductions): https://tinyurl.com/20240310BryantLib
Preview article in Nassau Observer here.
Reviewed in Roslyn News by Joe Scotchie here.
01 A Song to Begin
02 Advice to Virgins
03 Why So Pale
04 I Wouldn't Want You Any Other Way (Julie Mandel, arr. Lehrman)
05 Flute Sonatina Mvt 1
06 Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
07 I Wait for a Ship (MARIE GALANTE)
08 Princess's Aria from Dargomyzhsky's RUSALKA
09 Intro +The Hereafter
10 Nightingale in a Dream (clarinet)
11 So Low (with dancer)
12 Dawn in New York (with dancer)
13 Intro +Rabbi Rich Man
14 Where Do I Belong?
15 If I Can't Dance (with cello)
16 Empty Chairs/Killing Me Softly
17 Mi Shebeirach (with viola)
18 Iubire (Love)
19 Aventura (Adventure)

Musicians Club of NY Concert, Victor Borge Hall, Scandinavia House, Manhattan, Feb. 25, 2024
Helene sings Joel Mandelbaum's "Refuge" (Caren Shilling)
Perri Sussman premieres Leonard's "Y'did Nefesh" in English
both with clarinetist Bixby Kennedy

Musicians Club of NY Concert: https://tinyurl.com/20230319MCNY
Victor Borge Hall, Scandinavia House, Manhattan, Mar. 19, 2023
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 Grimke'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

Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island [GaSOCoLI] Fundraiser,
Mar. 11, 2023: https://tinyurl.com/20230319GaSLOCoLI.
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

Recital of Janis Sabatino Hills, Church of the Assumption, Atco, NJ, June 26, 2022
including Lehrman's op. 12. Full program posted here.

Music Prerecorded for Cyber Seder, Mar. 27, 2021:
1 Wandering
2 The World Is My Dream
3 Go Down, Moses
4 After All
5 Zog nit Keynmol
6 Lost Forever
7 Elijah

Zoom Kaddish for Nat Lehrman, Jan. 19, 2021
Cantor Charles Osborne leads the Kaddish Prayer, Leonard leads reminiscences,
reads his "Secular Kaddish," plays his musical setting,
and accompanies Daniel Hyman in Ravel's Kaddish, played on Nat's viola

Two Birthday Concerts

1) Aug. 18, 2019 for Leonard Lehrman's & Charles Osborne's 70th
with The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus at Trinity Church, Roslyn
Click here for Playlist.

2) Aug. 20, 2019 "Celebrating 2 Leonards" (Lehrman & Bernstein)
with Caryn Hartglass, Helene Williams & The Dakule Trio
(Daniel Hyman, violin; Kurt Behnke, cello; Leonard Lehrman, piano)
at Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library
Click here for Playlist.

Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus 50th Concert
January 26, 2019 at Long Beach Public Library
accompanied & conducted by Leonard Lehrman
Playlist (6 numbers + introductions)

Trinity Church Roslyn Concert with Alba Consort, Oct. 14, 2018:
Playlist (10 segments)
Excerpts:
1 Mother Margo Peckham Clark Intro
2 Leonard Lehrman Welcome
3 Blok-Lehrman: Benediction (Helene Williams)
4 Bach C-minor 2-KeybdCto: Adagio (Pr. Jack Whritenour & Leonard Lehrman
5 Lehrman: Kererte A Ti (Ladino Love Song) (Helene Williams)
6 Margo Andrea Intro
7 Alba Consort Selections
8 Intro to and reading of "The Last Word"
9 premiere of Alex Skovron-Leonard Lehrman: The Last Word
10 Finale & Bows


Performances from European Tour, May 11-26, 2018
5/14/18 Grieg in Bergen, Norway
5/21/18 Nielsen at his Childhood Home in Odense, Denmark
5/25/18 Mandelbaum-Brahms at Brahms Museum, Hamburg, Germany
5/26/18 Kathryn Wieckhorst's Hamburg Church Concert,
including Lehrman's "Spiele," "Sehnsucht" from Kommt, wir aendern die Welt!
and "If I Can't Dance" from E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman. Video by Helene.

"A Weekend with Willard"
3 Free Concerts Honoring the Centenary of
Composer J. Willard Roosevelt (1918-2008)
featuring The Sagamore Hill Band, Stephen Webster, cond.;
Andrew Bolotowsky, flutes; The Dakule Trio (Daniel Hyman, violin/viola;
Kurt Behnke, cello; Leonard Lehrman, piano); Stephen Gorgone, viola;
Barbara Novick, flute; Terry Keevil, oboe; Hilary Sperber, clarinet;
Michael Niemann, baritone; Elizabeth Palmedo, soprano; and Helene Williams, soprano.
Read preview article here.
1) April 20, 2018 7PM Sagamore Hill - moved to Oyster Bay High School due to cold
Click here for playlist.
2) April 21, 2018 4PM Poquatuck Hall, Orient, NY. Click here for playlist.
3) April 22, 2018 2:30PM Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library. Click here for playlist.



Tribute to Herbert Rothgarber
November 5, 2017 at Oceanside School #8, Oceanside, Long Island, NY
with The Dakule Trio, Anne Yarrow, Terry Keevil, Ellen Johansen, Michael Brown,
Helene Williams, Brendan Rorke, Jackie Bakewell, Sarah Blaze, Gregory Mercer
Natalya Simone, and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus,
Leonard Lehrman, Founder/Director/Piano/Conductor.
Read review here.


Memorial to Susan Blake (June 18, 1953-Oct. 2, 2007) and Max Wheat (Mar. 18, 1927-June 14, 2016)
October 9, 2018 at Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY
with Charlotte Koons, Rabbi Joshua Minkin, Mitchel Cohen, Gene Glickman, Scott Carlin,
Cindy Rosenbaum, Helene Williams & The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus, Leonard Lehrman, cond.


Memorials to Emily R. Lehrman (Mar. 1, 1923-Jan. 13, 2015)
Jan. 16 & 18, 2015 at The Amsterdam in Port Washington and Guttermans in Woodbury
including photos, speeches by her husband, children, and cousins
and Gavril Derzhavin's "Nightingale in a Dream," music by Leonard Lehrman,
sung by Helene Williams in English translation by Leonard & Emily Lehrman.
Click here for Roslyn News tribute to Emily R. Lehrman.
Click here for tribute to Emily R. Lehrman in Jewish Currents.
Click here for the one in The Pioneer at LIU-Post.
Click here for the June 21, 2015 Court Street Music concert in her memory.
Click here for the July 30, 2015 Naturist CaBAREt concert in her memory.
Click here for the Aug. 13, 2015 Brahms Piano-Voice Recital at Bethpage Library, in her memory.
Click here for the Oct. 18, 2015 Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus's "Songs of Conscience" concert
at Freeport Memorial Library, in her memory,
including excerpts from Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka in her & Leonard Lehrman's English translation:
The Princess's Aria sung by Perri Sussman, and
The Prince's Aria sung by Gregory Mercer.
Click here for the Nov. 1, 2015 Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus's "Songs of Conscience" concert
at Roslyn's Bryant Library, in her memory.
Click here for the webpage that includes links to production photos and
the complete opera performed Nov. 22, 2015 at Queens College;
the Dec. 3, 2015 Queens Chronicle review;
the Dec. 6, 2015 Russia Channel One news report;
the English translation (& correction) of that report ;
Mark Greenfest's review at soundwordsight.com.

3 Events Celebrating Release of CD in Memory of Emily R. Lehrman -
"Harmonize Your Spirit With My Calm" [co-produced with Joel Mandelbaum]:
Jan. 13, 2017 Court Street Music Recital, Valley Stream NY
Feb. 3, 2017 Interfaith Service of Metropolitan Synagogue with & at Community Church of NY
with Rabbi Joshua Plaut, High Holidays Cantor Michael Niemann, Rev. Bruce Southworth
Feb. 28, 2017 [postponed from Feb. 9] Recital at Queens College


Complete performance of Leonard Lehrman's opera Hannah, in 30 consecutive segments
mostly from Dec. 23, 2014 NY City premiere
(with some portions from Dec. 9 US premiere and Dec. 21 dress rehearsal)
Click here for a review of the opera by Dr. Jonathan Dzik.

Hannah Fundraising Promo, Oct. 30, 2014
including video with performance excerpts & speeches
by Helene Williams, Fredda Mendelson, Beth Flusser
and reminiscence/testimonial by Cantor Charles Osborne

"Jewish Opera Lives!"
Concert Series Leading Up to U.S. Premiere of Hannah:

Concert #1 at Florida Atlantic University's Jewish Kultur Festival, in Boca Raton, Mar. 6, 2014
Click here for playlist, or click on individual excerpts:

Concert #2 with sopranos Helene Williams & Faith Steinsnyder
mezzo-soprano Galit Dadoun Cohen, tenor David Perper
and Leonard Lehrman at the piano
at Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ Mar. 30, 2014
Click here for playlist, or click on individual excerpts:

Concert #3 at Freeport Memorial Library, Sept. 7, 2014
Introduced and accompanied by Leonard Lehrman at the piano
Click here for Playlist, or click on individual excerpts:

[Concert #4 at Sid Jacobson JCC, Roslyn, Sept. 23, 2014,
with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman, was not recorded.]

Concert #5 at Temple Bnai Or, Morristown NJ, Nov. 9, 2014
Introduced and presented by Cantor Galit Dadoun Cohen,
with Helene Williams, and Leonard Lehrman at the piano
Click here for Playlist, or click on individual excerpts:

Concert #6 at Jericho Jewish Center, with Helene Williams, Cantor Galit Dadoun Cohen,
Cantor David Katz (filling in for Cantor Barry Black), Cantor Raphael Frieder,
and Leonard Lehrman at the piano, Nov. 16, 2014.
Click here for Playlist, or click on individual excerpts:

Concert #7 at Bryant Library, Roslyn, Dec. 1, 2014 (postponed from Nov. 2)
with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman at the piano.
Click here for Playlist, or click on individual excerpts:

Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman Sing
Yiddish, Ladino & American Songs of Love & Social Consciousness
at Congregation Nahalat Shalom, Albuquerque, NM Aug. 9, 2014
Click here for playlist, or click on individual excerpts:

Carson Cooman commissioned a solo organ work from Leonard Lehrman:
In Memoriam ArnolD roSnEr, op. 214 (2013)
and premiered it at Harvard's Memorial Church, Aug. 3, 2014.
Two days earlier, he posted the soundtrack here.
Helene Williams videotaped the premiere, in the presence of the composer.

Musicians Club of NY Composers Concert, April 4, 2014
"Rags, Rivers & Romance" at Liederkranz Hall, Manhattan
Click here for playlist, or click on individual excerpts:

The New Improved SUPERSPY!: The S-e-c-r-e-t Musical
premiered at Medicine Show Theatre, 549 W.52 St., Manhattan, Feb. 7, 15 & 23, 2014
Book by Joel Shatzky; Music by Leonard Lehrman; Lyrics by Both
Starring Helene Williams with the composer at the piano
Click here for Feb. 23, 2014 performance playlist; individual numbers/scenes:

Music from Christmas Eve 2013
Dec. 24, 2013
at Church-in-the-Garden, Garden City, NY
Organist/Choir Director: Dr. Leonard Lehrman; Harpist: Rev. Dr. Karyn Carlo; Soprano Solo: Helene Williams
with the Church Choir: Barbara Wieder, Harriet Hope, Briggs Alfaro & Karyn Carlo
Video: Ronald Hope
Click here for playlist.
Individual excerpts:

A Celebration of Vienna
Bethpage Public Library, Oct. 10, 2013
with Helene Williams, Leonard Lehrman,
and guest clarinetist Monte Morgenstern
Click here for playlist.
Individual excerpts:

Highlights from High Holiday Services,
a first at the Tuttle Center of The Amsterdam at Harborside, Port Washington, NY
and the first services led by Leonard & Helene
Sept. 4, 2013 Erev Rosh Hashonah; Sept. 13, 2013 Erev Yom Kippur
Click here for Sept. 4, 2013 Rosh Hashonah playlist. Individual excerpts:

Click here for Sept. 13, 2013 Yom Kippur playlist. Individual excerpts:

Conversation with Leonard Lehrman at NY City Center
moderated by Nicole Kempskie, Video by Liz Charky, July 9, 2013
with guest soprano Helene Williams
in conjunction with the new production of The Cradle Will Rock
Click here for playlist. Individual segments:

Kererte A Ti
arr. for soprano, oboe & piano
setting by Leonard Lehrman of love poem in Ladino

Rising from the Ashes: Benefit Concert, June 15, 2013
Church-in-the-Garden, Garden City
Leonard Lehrman performs the "Corcovado" from Darius Milhaud's Saudades do Brasil
Helene Williams, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman, sings Fernando Obradors' "Il cabello mas sutil"

Songs of Love, May 24, 2013
presented by Molloy College at Temple B'nai Sholom, Rockville Centre, NY
Go to playlist of excerpts from the program here
or to individual excerpts as follows:

Social Consciousness on the Stage: Music by Blitzstein, Lehrman & Wiliam George
sung by Helene Williams, William George, and Leonard Lehrman at the piano
Canadian Music Centre, May 11, 2013
Go to playlist of excerpts from the program here or to individual excerpts as follows:

Jewish Music - in Yiddish, Ladino & English
Peretz Centre, Vancouver BC, May 10, 2013
Go to playlist of excerpts from the program here or to individual excerpts as follows:

Music by Great Neck Composers
Great Neck Library, May 5, 2013
Music by Herbert Feldman, Morton Gould, George Kleinsinger, Leo Kraft,
Leonard Lehrman, Angelo Musolino, Elie Siegmeister, and Hugo Weisgall
performed by Helene Williams, Leonard Lehrman, and other soloists
with The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus [MPC]
accompanied & conducted (mostly from the piano) by Leonard Lehrman

Lincoln Poetry & Music by Long Islanders
Long Island University - Post, April 27, 2013
co-sponsored by Long Island Composers Alliance, Lehrman Institute,
and NYSCA Decentralization Grant to Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation
Highlights re-recorded by Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman
at Court Street Music, Valley Stream, April 30, 2013:

Lost Forever
Leonard introduces, accompanies, and conducts
the Choir of Church-in-the Garden, Garden City,
in his arrangement of Abel Meeropol's song, for Earth Day
Apr. 21, 2013

Thomas Smith sings Lehrman for LICA, Freeport, Apr. 14, 2013

Life Is A Gift
Leonard introduces, accompanies, and conducts
the Choir of Church-in-the Garden, Garden City,
in his setting of the Presbyterian Confession of 1967
Feb. 17, 2013

Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918): A Sesquicentennial Tribute
by Helene Williams, soprano and Leonard Lehrman, pianist
Northport Library, Jan. 25, 2013
Go to playlist of excerpts from the program here.
Individual excerpts (music by Debussy, unless otherwise noted):

The Wooing and Other Pieces: Russian Opera Mini-Festival (Nov.-Dec. 2012)
Introduced and accompanied by Leonard Lehrman
Video by Amy Strauss Glass
See Nov. 21, 2012 NY Times article on the Festival here.
Go to playlist of performances of the opera here
Go to playlist of other performances at the Festival here.

Bethpage Public Library, Dec. 2, 2012

Freeport Memorial Library, Nov. 18, 2012

Highlights from Russian Solo Vocal & Piano Music Recital
Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman
at Bethpage Public Library, Nov. 15, 2012, Video by Amy Strauss Glass

Pre-Wedding House Concert for Ben Spierman & Hannah (Rosenbaum) Spierman
Burlington, VT, Sept. 29, 2012
Video by Alana Pfortmiller

Halifax Summer Opera Workshop American Aria Recital, July 28, 2012
featuring music by Marc Blitzstein, Elie Siegmeister, and Leonard Lehrman
with commentary and piano accompaniment by Leonard Lehrman
videotaped by Steven Bourque
Click here for playlist.
Excerpts:

Leonard Lehrman Conducts (& Accompanies)
The Blaue Jungs and Hanseaten Deern German Chorus
in concert in East Meadow, NY, June 24, 2012. Highlights:

Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918): A Sesquicentennial Tribute
by Helene Williams, soprano and Leonard Lehrman, pianist
Great Neck Library, June 10, 2012, Videotaped by Amy Strauss Glass
Go to playlist here.

A Light in the Darkness (Licht im Dunkel)
6-song cycle, op. 73 (1985) by Leonard Lehrman
on poems by Harry Oschitzki (pseud. Andy Orieli)
English translation by the composer
sung by Adam Holcomb, tenor, accompanied by the composer
recorded by Airicia Holcomb at Court Street Music, Valley Stream, NY
April 17, 2012
Click here for complete cycle.
Excerpts:

Songs by Long Island Jewish Composers presented at Hillwood Recital Hall,
Long Island University, Post Campus, by the Long Island Composers Alliance,
NYSCA Decentralization (administered by Huntington Arts Council),
Maldeb Foundation, Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation,
and RACH-C (Russian American Cultural Heritage Center), April 1, 2012
Video by Amy Strauss Glass
Excerpts:

The Gastesi-Bezerra Piano Duo perform Leonard Lehrman's 4-movement "Remembrance Suite,"
introduced by the composer, in concert at Palm Beach Atlantic University, W. Palm Beach, FL, March 22, 2012


Helene Williams, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman on synthesizer,
sings "Listen" - his setting of words by Walt Whitman, #26 from his Leaves of Grass
at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, in the 15th Annual NYSCA Decentralization Awards Ceremony
hosted by the Huntington Arts Council, Diana Cherryholmes, director
Feb. 8, 2012


Patrice Eaton, mezzo-soprano, and Mimi Stern-Wolfe, pianist,
perform the world premiere of Leonard Lehrman's setting of
Langston Hughes' poem "Let America Be America Again"
at St. Marks-in-the-Bowery, Jan. 15, 2012
(The composer takes a bow at the end.)


Shirley Romaine interviews Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman, Dec. 19, 2011
on Artscene on Long Island, telecast in Jan. 2012:

Helene Williams & Leonard perform The Broadway You Know & Don't Know

Syosset Public Library, Dec. 3, 2011

"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Showboat
"Our Private World" from On the Twentieth Century
"To Keep My Love Alive" from A Connecticut Yankee
"People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma
"Do You Love Me?" from Fiddler on the Roof!
"So in Love" and "I Hate Men" from Kiss Me, Kate
"You Must Meet My Wife" from A Little Night Music
"Memory" from Cats
"Carried Away" from On the Town
"Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music
"Let's Change the Woild" by Leonard Lehrman & Guenter Loscher

Great Neck Library, Nov. 20, 2011
Video by Amy Strauss Glass

Rockville Centre Public Library, Nov. 13, 2011

The Motyl String Quartet's first performance of Leonard's
Suite for String Quartet #2: Remembrance (4 movements)
at Kupferberg Center, Queensborough Community College,
Kristallnacht Commemoration of Sunday afternoon, Nov. 6, 2011

Harvard College Class of 1971 40th Reunion Performing Arts Event
Science Center, Sept. 24, 2011
Helene Williams & Reunion Class Choir sing Leonard Lehrman's & Abel Meeropol's
Conscience conducted by Rick Wilson, accompanied by the composer
Vicki Smith & Helene Williams, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman, sing Gioacchino Rossini's Cat Duet.
John Posner leads the Reunion Choir in Harvard Songs, accompanied by David Smith & Leonard Lehrman


Harvard College Class of 1971 40th Reunion Memorial Service
Memorial Church, Sept. 23, 2011
Reunion Class Choir sings Leonard Lehrman's
Blessing & Prayer for Healing
conducted by Rick Wilson, accompanied by the composer
Leonard Lehrman performs his "Harvard-Radcliffe Reflections,"
an organ postlude based on the musical letters
HArvArD-rADCliFFE rEFlECtionS: "worSt ClASS EvEr"
plus "Fair Harvard," "10,000 Men of Harvard,"
"Change the World, It Needs It" and "Let's Change the Woild!"


Harvard's Memorial Church Choir, Sept. 23, 2011, at Morning Prayer,
sings Leonard Lehrman's We Wish You Peace


Songs of Protest, Naturism & Broadway
with Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman
presented by New York Green Fest at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Videotaped by Ross Scott, August 6, 2011
Click here for playlist.
Excerpts:

Leonard Lehrman Conducts (& Accompanies)
The Blaue Jung's and Hanseaten Deern German Chorus
in concert in East Meadow, NY, April 10, 2011. Highlights:
"Die Lorelei" by Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Silcher (Frauenchor)
"Die Lorelei" by Heinrich Heine and Franz Liszt (Solo: Helene Williams)
"An de Alster, an de Elbe, an de Bill" by Richard Gerner
sung by Heinz Wieglieb and Men's Chorus


An Afternoon of Song by Leonard Lehrman & Charles Osborne
performed by them and Helene Williams, David Perper,
and (host) Faith Steinsnyder, Sunday afternoon, Jan. 23, 2011
at The Village Temple in Manhattan; videotaped by Jessica Lehrman

David Bernz, Leonard Lehrman, and others
perform their new words to
Woody Guthrie's "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You,"
and Pete Seeger leads them all in his "If I Had A Hammer," at the
Memorial to Art Kamell,
videotaped by Joe Friendly, Dec. 4, 2010 in Beacon, NY.
Also present: Helene Williams, Connie Hogarth,
David Amram, Charlie King, Karen Brandower



Announcement at Five Towns Forum Meeting, Hewlett, NY, Nov. 12, 2010
of the formation of an
International Committee on the Arts for Social Justice



Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah, NJ, Aug. 8, 2010
Repeat of 60th Birthday Concert of Music by Charles Osborne & Leonard Lehrman;
excerpts:

Earl Robinson Centennial Celebration at Local 802, Manhattan
presented by the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case (NCRRC)
with Helene Williams, Perry Robinson, Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus
videotaped by Casey Butcher, June 17, 2010
For playlist, click here.

Leonard's Meditation for 2 Pianists
for Marcio Bezerra & Estibaliz Gastesi in memory of Terry Winter Owens
premiered by them, March 19, 2010, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL

Concert of Music by Elie Siegmeister and His Students
featuring Helene Williams, soprano & Leonard Lehrman, piano
presented by Professor Michael Beckerman
New York University, October 28, 2009

Joint 60th Birthday Concert for Charles Osborne & Leonard Lehrman
Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY, Aug. 20, 2009
Excerpts from Video by Robert Goldberg:

Helene Williams, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman, sings
Shakespeare sonnet settings
by Joel Mandelbaum (#73 [world premiere] & 116)
and Leonard Lehrman (#29 [world premiere]),
presented by Downtown Music Productions, St. Marks-in-the-Bowery, June 22, 2008

The Booby Trap or Off Our Chests
a musical on the link between bras & breast cancer
by Sydney Ross Singer (book & lyrics) & Leonard Lehrman (music & additional lyrics)
performed by Cary Bair, Kathryn Wieckhorst, Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman
presented by Womanspace at the Senior Center, Great Neck, NY
as part of "Prevention Is the Cure" Week, May 17, 2008
in memory of Susan Blake
Go to playlist here.

The Opera/Musical Theatre Special Interest Group of The Naturist Society
performance at Empire Haven, Moravia, NY,
part of the Northeast Naturist Festival, Aug. 10, 2007
featuring Susan Blake, Helene Williams, Cary Bair, and Leonard Lehrman
Video by Stephen Van Eck
Click here for playlist.
Individual excerpts:

The Booby Trap or Off Our Chests
by Sydney Ross Singer (Book, Lyrics) & Leonard Lehrman (Music, Additional Lyrics)
Go to playlist here.

E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman,
music by Leonard Lehrman, book & lyrics by Leonard Lehrman & Karen Ruoff Kramer,
in performance at The Living Theatre, May 1, 2007,
presented by The Libertarian Book Club,
starring Helene Williams with the composer at the piano,
Susan Blake at the projector, and Carol Jochnowitz at the lightboard,
videotaped by Bill Castleman. Performance dedicated to the memory of Paul Avrich.
Go to playlist here, or click on individual scenes and songs:

80th Birthday Tribute to Sheldon Harnick
June 5, 2004 by The Oceanside Chorale, Leonard Lehrman, Director
[excerpts from first half of Harnick/Hammerstein Program]
All Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; Video by Helene Williams
Click here for playlist.
Individual excerpts:

Wedding of Leonard Lehrman & Helene Williams Spierman
July 14, 2002 at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Manhattan
Cantor Charles Osborne, Officiant; Alan Sever, Organist
Video by Lorne Birch
Click here for playlist.

Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 5, 2002
Poetry Into Music: Helene Williams, soprano; Leonard Lehrman, piano
Introduction by Alex Skovron
Introduction by Leonard Lehrman

The Bourgeois Poet #1-5 (poetry: Karl Shapiro; music: Leonard Lehrman)
Introductory - The Bourgeois Poet - Deep-Thinking Machine - When Suffering Is Everywhere - How Do I Love You?

Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1934- ) reads "Antipodean Heads" by John Forbes (1950-1998)
and his own "Erstwhile"
Jordie Albiston (1961- ) reads "No More Boomerang" by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (nee Kath Walker, 1920-1993)
and her own "Missing Him"
Jacob Rosenberg (1922-2008) reads "A Strange Bird" by Michael Dransfield (1948-1973)
and his own "I Remember"
Alex Skovron (1948- ) reads "Crosstalk" by John Tranter (1943- )
Alex Skovron (1948- ) reads his own "The Golem"
Alison Croggon (1962- ) reads "Love Sonnet #9" by Edith Speers (1949- ),
"Woman's Song" by Judith Wright (1915-2000), and her own "Fugue"
Ian McBryde (1953- ) reads "After Babel" by Peter Goldsworthy (1951- )
and his own "Equatorial"
Helene Williams sings Gordon Brisker's setting of Jacob Rosenberg's "I Remember"
Finale (#8) from The Bourgeois Poet: A'men

Introduction #2 (and Acknowledgments) by Alex Skovron
An Australian Odyssey
Click here for the complete cycle.
Individual songs are listed and posted here:

Sacco and Vanzetti
an opera in 3 acts
words & music begun by Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964)
completed in 2001 by Leonard Lehrman
world premiere production, concertante with piano
starring Gregory Mercer (Sacco), James Sergi (Vanzetti),
with Helene Williams, Monica Harte, Tammy Hensrud, Tara Venditti,
Steven Tharp, Mark Wolf, Lars Woodul, Robert Osborne,
Nicole Mercer, Maurice Edwards, Leonard Lehrman
conducted from the piano by Leonard Lehrman, assisted by Michael Pilafian
videotaped by Benjamin Spierman at final performance of Aug. 19, 2001 at The White Barn Theatre, Westport, CT:
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Symposium on Sacco and Vanzetti at White Barn Theatre, Aug. 18, 2001
Introduction by Vincent Curcio
Opening Speech by Joan Peyser
Speech by Leonard Lehrman
Speech by Robert Palmer
Speech by Brenda Lewis
Speech by Anton Coppola
Q&A Part 1
Q&A Part 2

The Birthday of the Bank
one-act opera by Leonard Lehrman based on Anton Chekhov's play Yubilei
in Russian, or in English translation by the composer
commissioned by Opera America for Lake George Opera Festival, 1988
workshopped there, performed June 1998 at LICA EastEuroFest,
Sept. 1999 at International Jewish Arts Festival of LI and Queens College,
with Peter Ludwig, Ronald Edwards, Janis Sabatino Hills, Maro Partamian,
Benjamin Spierman, Natasha Jitomirskaia, and Nathan Bahny
accompanied at the piano by the composer,
videotaped by Helene Williams, viewable in 6 segments,
#1-5 at Queens College Sep. 30, 1999; #6 at NYU June 22, 1998.
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The Leonard Lehrman Semi-Centennial Concert
presented by The Long Island Composers Alliance, in its 250th concert,
with Leonard Lehrman as solo pianist & accompanist
in works of his own and those of his students and teachers
at The Bryant Library, Roslyn NY, Aug. 20, 1999
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Introduction by Victor Caputo
Introductions by Leonard Lehrman & LICA Co-Founder/President Herbert Deutsch
Announcements & Acknowledgments
Introduction of work by Lukas Foss
Foss: Prelude in D piano solo
Introduction of work by Earl Kim
Kim: Letters Found Near a Suicide (Frank Horne) Helene Williams, soprano
Introduction of work by Elie Siegmeister
Siegmeister: Festive March piano solo
Lehrman: For Steve Belfer and Karen Sara Unger - introduction & performance
Introduction of & by Robert Palmer
Palmer: Transitions piano solo
Introduction of Suzanne Mueller Schanzer, cellist
Lehrman: Thinking of You for cello & piano
Lehrman: The Moon for cello & piano
Deutsch: Quiet Times piano solo
Introduction of soprano Janis Sabatino Hills & performance of Harold Gilmore Aria
Introduction of Sonnetina #1
Lehrman: Sonnetina #1 (Marilyn Siegel) Janis Sabatino Hills, soprano
Introduction of & by Donald Sloan
Sloan: Nocturne (Robert Hillyer) Janis Sabatino Hills, soprano
Introduction of & by Daniel Dorff
Dorff: 2 Alphabetical Songs Helene Williams, soprano
Lehrman: Alphabetical Song Helene Williams, soprano
Lehrman: We're Gambling (from San Po Jo [Mark Kingdon]) - introduction & performance
Introduction of The Bourgeois Poet (Karl Shapiro)
Lehrman: The Bourgeois Poet [8-song cycle] Helene Williams, soprano
Lehrman: Sonata for Violin & Piano [3 movements] Cyrus Stevens, violinist
Lehrman-Loscher: Let's Change the Woild! Helene Williams, soprano
Happy Birthday

New World: An Opera About What Columbus Did to the "Indians"
2-act opera commissioned by the Puffin Foundation for the Columbian Quincentennial
world premiere Aug. 11, 1992 at Heckscher Park, Huntington
co-sponsored by Long Island Composers Alliance
libretto by Joel Shatzky, music by Leonard Lehrman, conducted by the composer
directed by Benjamin Spierman, starring
Mark Wolff, Ronald Edwards, Helene Williams, Janis Sabatino Hills,
Robert Ross, Herman Gaddy, and John Sharpe
with members of the Long Island Singers & Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus
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Tales of Malamud
3 one-act operas based on stories by Bernard Malamud:
Idiots First, based on the eponymous story, begun by Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964), completed in 1973 by Leonard Lehrman
Suppose A Wedding, based on the eponymous Scene of a Play, composed by Leonard Lehrman in 1995
Karla, based on "Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party," composed in 1974 by Leonard Lehrman

Merkin Concert Hall, June 23, 1991
Helene Williams, accompanied by Leonard Lehrman, sings
Zelophehad's Daughters
by Leonard Lehrman, with the Wendy Osserman Dance Group,
videotaped by Richard Corey
Other songs by Leonard, sung by Helene at that concert:
The SDI Waltz
Crimes (text by Edith Segal)
She also sang Edith's Underneath the Spanish Stars, with Edith on castanets.
Speakers at the NCRRC meeting preceding the concert included
Morris U. Schappes, Nathaniel S. Lehrman, and Edith Segal.

Jewish Affairs Concert, Roosevelt Hotel, NYC, Sept. 30, 1990
Soprano Helene Williams with Leonard Lehrman at the piano
commemorating 75th birthday of Ethel Rosenberg
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Individual Selections:

Superspy!: The S-e-c-r-e-t Musical
at Community Church of Boston Feb. 25, 1990
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Marymount Manhattan Theater, June 11, 1989
Leonard Lehrman conducts Peter Schlosser, Helene Williams,
and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra
in his Rosenberg Cantata, We Are Innocent
based on The Death House Letters by Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
used by permission of their sons, commissioned by
The National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case
and The Professor Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science, and the Arts.
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Individual movements are listed and posted here:

Harlem School of the Arts, Jan. 15, 1989
Leonard Lehrman conducts William Warfield, Ronald Edwards
and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus
accompanied by Christine Niehaus
in Elie Siegmeister's cantata I Have A Dream
on text by Edward Mabley based on the Aug. 28, 1963 speech
of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
in its Manhattan premiere, hosted by Robert Sherman and Betty Allen
videotaped by Richard Corey

E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman
music by Leonard Lehrman, book & lyrics by Leonard Lehrman & Karen Ruoff Kramer,
Jewish Currents concert performance of 6-person version
Dec. 6, 1987 with Helene Williams, Pamela Sanabria, Sheila Dean Wormer
Douglas Kiddie, Mark Hoeler, and Eugene Green, with the composer at the piano
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E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman
music by Leonard Lehrman, book & lyrics by Leonard Lehrman & Karen Ruoff Kramer,
first performance of 6-person version, Libertarian Book Club
April 23, 1987 with Helene Williams, Pamela Sanabria, Sheila Dean Wormer
Douglas Kiddie, Don Catrone, Eugene Green, and the composer at the piano
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E.G.: Scenes from the Life of Emma Goldman
music by Leonard Lehrman, book & lyrics by Leonard Lehrman & Karen Ruoff Kramer,
first performance, benefit for U.S. Americans for Peace,
West Berlin, May 4, 1986, on the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket Riot,
featuring soprano Elizabeth Parcells with Leonard Lehrman at the piano.
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The Lady of the Castle
one-act ballad opera by Mira J. Spektor
after play in Hebrew by Lea Goldberg, English translation by T. Carmi
European premiere, July 1985
presented by Juedischer Musiktheaterverein Berlin at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, W. Berlin
German translation by Miriam Walter & Leonard Lehrman
directed by Joaquin LaHabana; conducted from the piano & harpsichord by Leonard Lehrman
starring Klaus Lang, Klaus Neumcke, Marianne Dorsch and Seung Hee Han
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The Family Man
one-act one-character opera by Leonard Lehrman
after story by Mikhail Sholokhov
performed by Ronald Edwards
accompanied at the piano by the composer
staged by Lou Rodgers for Golden Fleece, Ltd., NYC, June 1985
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Juedischer Musiktheaterverein Gala Opening Concert, April 30, 1984
Juedisches Gemeindehaus, West Berlin
Leonard Lehrman at the piano; video by Joaquin LaHabana

Growing Up Woman
a song cycle musical, based on the book of poems, Bittersweet Year
words by Barbara Tumarkin Dunham, music by Leonard Lehrman
European premiere, April 30, 1984
with Angie Perez (as Juliette), Ute Gabriel, Silvia Weiss, Constance DeFotis, and David Bloch (as the Man)
and instrumental ensemble conducted from the piano by the composer; direction & choreography by Joaquin LaHabana
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Sima
two-act opera by Leonard Lehrman
after "Tscheta Krasovitskikh" (The Krasovitsky Couple)
by David Aizman, tr. by Edgar H. Lehrman
performed at Barnes Hall, Cornell University, 1976
co-sponsored by Ithaca Opera Association
broadcast on Cable TV May 1977
with chorus, piano, harpsichord & organ
conducted by the composer
directed by the composer & Glen Becker
starring Paul Gibbons & Carol Skinner as Yakov & Regina Krasovitsky,
Joanne Ball as Manya, Yvonne Parkes as Lyuba,
and Julie Gibbons as Sima
Video by Louis Mezgar
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