List of Translations
by Leonard J. Lehrman
from the Russian
"Do the Russians Long for
War?" by Yevgeni Yevtushenko, music by Komissarzhefsky, 1966
Getting Married, one act of opera after Nikolai Gogol by Modeste Musorgsky,
performed readers' theatre melodrama style, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, April 1973
by George Gibian (Podkolyossin), William Austin (Kotchkaryov), Laurel Fay (Fyokla) & Jerry Amaldev (Stepan)
A Life for the Tsar, opera by Mikhail Glinka, for Bel Canto Opera, NYC, 1979
Click here for an excerpt, Sobinin's Aria sung by Gregory Mercer, 2012
Rusalka, opera in 4 acts after Alexander Pushkin by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, English tr. by Emily & Leonard Lehrman, 1986
English-language premiere, in concert with piano, at Queens College:
Helene Williams in the title role; David Anchel as the Miller (Raven)/Matchmaker;
Gregory Mercer as the Prince; Perri Sussman as the Princess
Kathryn Wieckhorst as Olga, and Jackie Bakewell as the Little Mermaid
with The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus:
Jackie Bakewell, Sandra Fox, Amy Glass, Galina Leybovitch, Sokunthary Svay
Joan Tarbutton, Michelle Wallace, Nancy Zucker, David Aubrey, Charles Samuel Brown
Bill Castleman, Brian M. Kerns, Joshua Minkin, Jim Spiegle, Thomas Smith, Henry Yen
Conducted from the piano by Leonard Lehrman, assisted by Markus Kaitila
Preceded by Presentation of Commemorative Plaque honoring Emily R. Lehrman (1923-2015)
and Anastasia Roytman singing Lehrman's setting of Pushkin's "Winter Morning"
--click here for the complete opera, performed Nov. 22, 2015 at Queens College
--click here for the complete opera, subtitled, Aug. 2021
--click here for the Dec. 3, 2015 Queens Chronicle review.
Additional review by Mark Greenfest, Dec. 12, 2015 for SoundWordSight.com.
Previews from concert excerpt performances posted on YouTube:
Act I: Miller's Aria (David Anchel)
Act II: Wedding Chorus
Act III: Scene 1 - Princess's Aria (Perri Sussman)
Scene 2 - Mermaid's Chorus
Prince's Aria (Gregory Mercer)
Act IV - Rusalka's Scene with Little Mermaid (Helene Williams, Jackie Bakewell)
Russia Channel 1 Interview Aug. 20 [telecast Dec. 6], 2015
(English Translation of Interview Text)
Lecture by Caryl Emerson Nov. 18, 2015
"Within Me Music Would Resound" by Efim Medvedovskaya, music by Nataliya Medvedovskaya, 2016
performed in Moscow, Nov. 2, 2016
8 Russian Songs, recorded in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 1-2, 2016:
1) "Benediction" by Alexander Blok, 1977
2) "Me & Russia" by Velemir
Khlebnikov, 1985
3) "Greeting" by Afanasy Fet, 1977
4) "Quartet" by Ivan Krylov, 1977
5) "Nightingale in a Dream" by Gavril Derzhavin, 1977
6) "My University" by Vladimir
Mayakovsky, 1970
7) "Winter Morning" by Alexander Pushkin, 1986
8) "Untitled" by Galina Leybovich, 2015
"Prelude" by Galina Leybovich, 2017
King Lear by Sergei Slonimsky, 2001, opera on Shakespeare's play
in Russian translation by Boris Pasternak, translated back into English, 2017
Excerpt, Cordelia's Aria, Finale of Act II, recorded June 20, 2018
from the German
Brahms Lieder (20)
Days of the Commune play by Bertolt Brecht
The Roundheads & the Pointedheads play by Bertolt Brecht, including:
"Nannas Lied" by Bertolt Brecht
Click here for video of performance of entire score with piano, Jan. 26, 2019
Words to Music by Gerhard Bronner (13):
"A Song to Begin," "Old McDonald's," "Everything Stereo,"
"Just A Normal Country - Almost, Not Quite," "Everything's Relative,"
"A Little Freedom," "I Stay on the Sidelines," "A Yiddisher Cowboy,"
"The Man of the Future," "Bein' American's Tough," "A Man for Each Season - Easily Disposed Of"
Heinrich Heine: "Songless Was I" and excerpts from "Germany: A Winter's Tale"
Mascha Kaleko: "Liebeslied"
Karl Kraus: "To A Wrinkle"
Peter Maiwald: "Spiele"
from the French
"Les Bourgeois" by Jacques
Brel
"Je Suis Un Voyou" and
"Le Parapluie" by Georges Brassens
Debussy Songs (10):
"Night of Stars," "Mandolin," "Lovely Evening," "Tis the Ecstasy," "Tears Fall Within My Heart,"
"Shadows of Trees," "Romance," "Music," "The Sea is More Beautiful," "Ballad of the Women of Paris"
from the Hebrew
"Shir L'Shalom" by Ya'acov
Rotblit
--led by Helene Williams with Leonard Lehrman at the piano (on YouTube:)
--9/13/13 Yom Kippur Service, The Amsterdam, Port Washington, NY
"Al Kol Eileh" by Naomi Shemer
from the Yiddish
"In der Fremd" by Leyb Naydus
"Shtil di nakht" by Hirsh Glik