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Leonard Lehrman

April 10, 2024

Leonard Jordan Lehrman is an American composer who was born in Kansas, on August 20, 1949, and grew up in Roslyn, New York. Since August 3, 1999, he has resided in Valley Stream, New York. Since 1995 he has served as a part-time Reference Librarian at Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library.

His teachers included Lenore Anhalt, Elie Siegmeister, Olga Heifetz, the Guarneri Quartet, Elizabeth Korte, Earl Kim, Kyriena Siloti, Harry Levin, Nadia Boulanger, Jean-Jacques Painchaud, Leon Kirchner, David Del Tredici, James Yannatos, Karel Husa, William Austin, Robert Palmer, George Gibian, Tibor Kozma, Wolfgang Vacano, Donald Erb, and John Eaton. On July 31, 1978 he married Karen Shaw Campbell. They were divorced in November, 1986. On July 14, 2002 he married Helene Williams Spierman. They have collaborated on over 675 performances since March 1987, including 17 CDs and over 4000 videos on YouTube, with over 1,000,000 views to date.

He graduated cum laude from Harvard; received a master's degree and a doctorate in music composition from Cornell; a master's degree in library science from Long Island University and studied under a Fulbright scholarship in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.[1] His first original opera was the subject of a 2014 doctoral thesis by Jeremy Blackwood, posted at https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700028/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf

Life and career edit

Lehrman has composed 284 works to date, including 12 operas and 7 musicals. He composed also more than 400 vocal works.[2] He won the 2002 Sunrise/Sunset Competition of the Brookhaven Arts Council in 2002 for his setting of Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allan)'s poem "Conscience". Since 1973 he has worked as conductor, coach, pianist, composer, and/or translator for the Metropolitan Opera (assistant chorus master 1977–78), Bel Canto Opera, After Dinner Opera Company, Aviva Players, the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus, the Jewish Music Theater of Berlin, the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus, the Workmen's Circle Chorus, the Oceanside Chorale, the Blaue Jungs/Hanseaten Deern German Chorus of East Meadow, and the Bronx Opera. He edited The Marc Blitzstein Songbook (3v., Boosey & Hawkes 1999–2003), authored Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood/Praeger, 2005), and co-authored Elie Siegmeister, American Composer: A Bio-Bibliography (Scarecrow, 2010). He has also written for The Hilltop Beacon (critic-at-large, 1966–67), Harvard Crimson (critic, 1967–68), WHRB (chief producer, 1968–70), Dunster Drama Review (1970–71), Risley Review (1973–75), WBAI (Producer, "Music of All the Americas," 1989–91), Opera Monthly (associate editor, 1990–94), Opera Journal (critic, 1995–97), Aufbau (critic, 1995–2002), andante.com (2002), Jewish Currents (1981–present), New Music Connoisseur (2001–2016, part of that time as copy editor), Soundwordsight.com (2015–present), and other publications.

His operas include Tales of Malamud (Idiots First (1973) – completion of work begun by Marc Blitzstein; Karla (1974); and Suppose A Wedding (1996), based on two stories and a play by Bernard Malamud); Sima (1976), based on The Krasovitsky Couple by David A. Aizman, tr. Edgar H. Lehrman; Hannah (1980) based on Midrashic legends, libretto in collaboration with Orel Protopopescu; The Family Man (1984), based on story by Mikhail Sholokhov; The Birthday of the Bank (1988), in Russian (and English tr. by composer) on Anton Chekhov's Yubilei; New World: An Opera About What Columbus Did to the "Indians" (1991), libretto in collaboration with Joel Shatzky; Sacco and Vanzetti –completion of work begun by Marc Blitzstein; The Wooing (2003), libretto by Abel Meeropol based on Anton Chekhov's The Boor; The Triangle Fire (2016), libretto by Ellen Frankel, and A Loveletter from Rosa Luxemburg (2019).

His musicals include The Comic Tragedy of San Po Jo (1963), book & lyrics in collaboration with Mark Kingdon; Growing Up Woman (1979), book & lyrics by Barbara Tumarkin Dunham; Kommt, wir aendern die Welt! (1981), book & lyrics by Guenter-Heinz Loscher, translated into Brooklynese by composer as Let's Change the Woild!; E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman (1987), book & lyrics in collaboration with Karen Ruoff Kramer; Superspy!: The S-e-c-r-e-t Musical (1988–91, rev. 2014), book by Joel Shatzky, lyrics in collaboration; The Booby Trap or Off Our Chests (2001–2008), book by Sydney Ross Singer, lyrics in collaboration; Adam & Lilith & Eve (1993–2015), book by Manya Pruzhanskaya Lackow.

His translations include Bertolt Brecht's Days of the Commune (1971) and Round Heads and Pointed Heads (1973), 20 Johannes Brahms songs, 13 Gerhard Bronner cabaret songs, Harry Oschitzki (Andy Orieli) and Heinrich Heine cycles, and other poems and essays from the German; Emmanuel Chabrier's L'Etoile (1988) and An Incomplete Education (2006) and songs by Claude Debussy (10), Jacques Brel, and Georges Brassens from the French; songs by Ya'acov Rotblit and Naomi Shemer from the Hebrew; "In der Fremd" from the Yiddish by Leib Naidus; an ode by Euripides from the ancient Greek; Modest Mussorgsky's Zhenitba (Getting Married) (1973), Mikhail Glinka's A Life for the Tsar (1979), and Rusalka (Dargomyzhsky) (1986) from the Russian – in collaboration with his mother, Emily R. Lehrman (1923–2015), along with poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky (1967); Vladimir Mayakovsky (1970); Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Blok, Afanasy Fet, Ivan Krylov, Gavrila Derzhavin (all 1977); Velemir Khlebnikov and Alexander Pushkin (1986); Yefim Medvedovsky (2013–2016); and Galina Leybovich (2015). In 2016 he translated Sergei Slonimsky's opera King Lear, based on the Boris Pasternak Russian translation of Shakespeare, back into English.

From 1992 to 2003 he was Music Director at Malverne Community Presbyterian Church and from 1995 to 2001 at North Shore Synagogue in Syosset. Having worked at many other churches and synagogues, in February 2014 he became organist, choir director and composer-in-residence of Christ Church Lutheran in Rosedale, New York. In August 2014 he became High Holidays organist and choir director of the Metropolitan Synagogue in Manhattan. In October 2021 he became organist, choir director and composer-in-residence of Grace Episcopal Church in Massapequa, New York. Videos of preludes, postludes,

and anthems he played and conducted there may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmhHI8m9j-Xv39n2TOboU-4MCoe7e8Xbi.

May 1-Aug. 31, 2022 he was Minister of Music at Grace Lutheran Church Malverne.

In the fall of 2022 he began playing masses at St. Barnabas' Roman Catholic Church in Bellmore.

In October 2022, he accepted the position of Conductor for the 2022-23 production of Princess Ida by

The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island and between April 16 & July 1, 2023 conducted 5 performances from the piano, 4 with full orchestra and chorus. His works and performances are represented on recordings by Opus One, Premier, Capstone Records, Albany Records, Original Cast (record label), Ravello (Parma Records), and Toccata Classics.

Discography edit

  • "Marc Blitzstein Music for Solo Piano" Toccata Classics 0438 (2019)
  • "Harmonize Your Spirit With My Calm: Instrumental Works and Songs to Poetry of Russian and American Poets" by Leonard Lehrman & Joel Mandelbaum, with Helene Williams, Alexander Mikhalëv, the Meridian String Quartet, and the State Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Lande, cond., Ravello Records 7951 (2016)
  • Leonard Lehrman, Helene Williams, Lars Woodul, and the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus, "The Elie Siegmeister Centennial CD," Original Cast (record label) (2008)
  • Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman, "Diamond Jubilee: Songs By David Diamond," Albany Records (2006)
  • Leonard Lehrman, "The Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert CD," performed by Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus & Soloists, Original Cast (record label) (2005)
  • Lehman Engel, Herbert Haufrecht, Martin Kalmanoff, Robert Kurka, Leonard Lehrman, Joel Mandelbaum, Abel Meeropol, Earl Robinson, Elie Siegmeister, Kurt Weill, "The Abel Meeropol Centennial Concert," performed by Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus & Soloists, Original Cast (record label) (2003)
  • Leonard Lehrman, Gregory Mercer, James Sergi, and Helene Williams, "A Marc Blitzstein Songbook," Original Cast (record label) (2001)
  • Eleanor Cory, Herbert Deutsch, Lukas Foss, Morton Gould, Andre Hosza, Leo Kraft, Leonard Lehrman, Joel Mandelbaum, Angelo Musolino, Raoul Pleskow, Elie Siegmeister, Hale Smith, Serge Suny, performed by Leonard Lehrman, "Long Island Composers Alliance," Capstone Records(1999)
  • Ralph Alan Dale, Daniel Dorff, Denise Broadhurst, Janis Sabatino Hills, Leonard Lehrman, Joel Mandelbaum, Angelo Musolino, Elie Siegmeister, Hale Smith, Mira J. Spektor, and Raymond VunKannon, "Helene Williams Sings More Songs Of Love," "Long Island Composers Alliance," Capstone Records (1999)
  • Adele Berk, Leonard Lehrman, Elie Siegmeister, Jeanne Singer, and Albert Tepper, "Helene Williams Sings Songs Of Love", "Long Island Composers Alliance,"Capstone Records (1997)
  • Anne Watson Born, Becky Dale, Herbert Feldman, Frederick Frahm, Leo Kraft, Leonard Lehrman, Matthew Marullo, Akmal Parwez, Joseph Pehrson, Abram M. Plum, Harriette Slack Richardson, George Selbst, Judi Silvano, "The William Cullen Bryant Bicentennial Concert," "Long Island Composers Alliance," Capstone Records(1995)
  • Ronald Edwards, Leonard Lehrman, Helene Williams, "A [Marc] Blitzstein Cabaret," Premier Recordings (1990)
  • Leonard Lehrman, Peter Schlosser, and Helene Williams, The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, "We Are Innocent: Rosenberg Cantata," Opus One (1989)

References edit

As of this edit, this article uses content from "Leonard Lehrman biography", which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but not under the GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed.

  1. ^ "WEDDINGS; Helene Williams-Spierman, Leonard Lehrman". NY Times. July 14, 2002. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  2. ^ Lehrman Retrieved on 15 Jan 2018

External links edit

  • Leonard J. Lehrman site* Chazzanut online – Leonard Lehrman – Helene Williams
  • superpages.com – Court St Music Instruction
  • New York Green Fest 2011 – Helene Williams, soprano & Leonard Lehrman, composer/pianist: Songs of Protest, Naturism & Broadway
  • Allmusic – Helene Williams
  • The New York Times, July 14, 2002 – WEDDINGS; Helene Williams-Spierman, Leonard Lehrman
  • Lehrman

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Leonard Jordan Lehrman is an American composer who was born in Kansas on August 20 1949 and grew up in Roslyn New York Since August 3 1999 he has resided in Valley Stream New York Since 1995 he has served as a part time Reference Librarian at Oyster Bay East Norwich Public Library His teachers included Lenore Anhalt Elie Siegmeister Olga Heifetz the Guarneri Quartet Elizabeth Korte Earl Kim Kyriena Siloti Harry Levin Nadia Boulanger Jean Jacques Painchaud Leon Kirchner David Del Tredici James Yannatos Karel Husa William Austin Robert Palmer George Gibian Tibor Kozma Wolfgang Vacano Donald Erb and John Eaton On July 31 1978 he married Karen Shaw Campbell They were divorced in November 1986 On July 14 2002 he married Helene Williams Spierman They have collaborated on over 675 performances since March 1987 including 17 CDs and over 4000 videos on YouTube with over 1 000 000 views to date He graduated cum laude from Harvard received a master s degree and a doctorate in music composition from Cornell a master s degree in library science from Long Island University and studied under a Fulbright scholarship in Paris with Nadia Boulanger 1 His first original opera was the subject of a 2014 doctoral thesis by Jeremy Blackwood posted at https digital library unt edu ark 67531 metadc700028 m2 1 high res d dissertation pdf Contents 1 Life and career 2 Discography 3 References 4 External linksLife and career editLehrman has composed 284 works to date including 12 operas and 7 musicals He composed also more than 400 vocal works 2 He won the 2002 Sunrise Sunset Competition of the Brookhaven Arts Council in 2002 for his setting of Abel Meeropol Lewis Allan s poem Conscience Since 1973 he has worked as conductor coach pianist composer and or translator for the Metropolitan Opera assistant chorus master 1977 78 Bel Canto Opera After Dinner Opera Company Aviva Players the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus the Jewish Music Theater of Berlin the Jewish People s Philharmonic Chorus the Workmen s Circle Chorus the Oceanside Chorale the Blaue Jungs Hanseaten Deern German Chorus of East Meadow and the Bronx Opera He edited The Marc Blitzstein Songbook 3v Boosey amp Hawkes 1999 2003 authored Marc Blitzstein A Bio Bibliography Greenwood Praeger 2005 and co authored Elie Siegmeister American Composer A Bio Bibliography Scarecrow 2010 He has also written for The Hilltop Beacon critic at large 1966 67 Harvard Crimson critic 1967 68 WHRB chief producer 1968 70 Dunster Drama Review 1970 71 Risley Review 1973 75 WBAI Producer Music of All the Americas 1989 91 Opera Monthly associate editor 1990 94 Opera Journal critic 1995 97 Aufbau critic 1995 2002 andante com 2002 Jewish Currents 1981 present New Music Connoisseur 2001 2016 part of that time as copy editor Soundwordsight com 2015 present and other publications His operas include Tales of Malamud Idiots First 1973 completion of work begun by Marc Blitzstein Karla 1974 and Suppose A Wedding 1996 based on two stories and a play by Bernard Malamud Sima 1976 based on The Krasovitsky Couple by David A Aizman tr Edgar H Lehrman Hannah 1980 based on Midrashic legends libretto in collaboration with Orel Protopopescu The Family Man 1984 based on story by Mikhail Sholokhov The Birthday of the Bank 1988 in Russian and English tr by composer on Anton Chekhov s Yubilei New World An Opera About What Columbus Did to the Indians 1991 libretto in collaboration with Joel Shatzky Sacco and Vanzetti completion of work begun by Marc Blitzstein The Wooing 2003 libretto by Abel Meeropol based on Anton Chekhov s The Boor The Triangle Fire 2016 libretto by Ellen Frankel and A Loveletter from Rosa Luxemburg 2019 His musicals include The Comic Tragedy of San Po Jo 1963 book amp lyrics in collaboration with Mark Kingdon Growing Up Woman 1979 book amp lyrics by Barbara Tumarkin Dunham Kommt wir aendern die Welt 1981 book amp lyrics by Guenter Heinz Loscher translated into Brooklynese by composer as Let s Change the Woild E G A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman 1987 book amp lyrics in collaboration with Karen Ruoff Kramer Superspy The S e c r e t Musical 1988 91 rev 2014 book by Joel Shatzky lyrics in collaboration The Booby Trap or Off Our Chests 2001 2008 book by Sydney Ross Singer lyrics in collaboration Adam amp Lilith amp Eve 1993 2015 book by Manya Pruzhanskaya Lackow His translations include Bertolt Brecht s Days of the Commune 1971 and Round Heads and Pointed Heads 1973 20 Johannes Brahms songs 13 Gerhard Bronner cabaret songs Harry Oschitzki Andy Orieli and Heinrich Heine cycles and other poems and essays from the German Emmanuel Chabrier s L Etoile 1988 and An Incomplete Education 2006 and songs by Claude Debussy 10 Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens from the French songs by Ya acov Rotblit and Naomi Shemer from the Hebrew In der Fremd from the Yiddish by Leib Naidus an ode by Euripides from the ancient Greek Modest Mussorgsky s Zhenitba Getting Married 1973 Mikhail Glinka s A Life for the Tsar 1979 and Rusalka Dargomyzhsky 1986 from the Russian in collaboration with his mother Emily R Lehrman 1923 2015 along with poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky 1967 Vladimir Mayakovsky 1970 Anna Akhmatova Alexander Blok Afanasy Fet Ivan Krylov Gavrila Derzhavin all 1977 Velemir Khlebnikov and Alexander Pushkin 1986 Yefim Medvedovsky 2013 2016 and Galina Leybovich 2015 In 2016 he translated Sergei Slonimsky s opera King Lear based on the Boris Pasternak Russian translation of Shakespeare back into English From 1992 to 2003 he was Music Director at Malverne Community Presbyterian Church and from 1995 to 2001 at North Shore Synagogue in Syosset Having worked at many other churches and synagogues in February 2014 he became organist choir director and composer in residence of Christ Church Lutheran in Rosedale New York In August 2014 he became High Holidays organist and choir director of the Metropolitan Synagogue in Manhattan In October 2021 he became organist choir director and composer in residence of Grace Episcopal Church in Massapequa New York Videos of preludes postludes and anthems he played and conducted there may be found here https www youtube com playlist list PLmhHI8m9j Xv39n2TOboU 4MCoe7e8Xbi May 1 Aug 31 2022 he was Minister of Music at Grace Lutheran Church Malverne In the fall of 2022 he began playing masses at St Barnabas Roman Catholic Church in Bellmore In October 2022 he accepted the position of Conductor for the 2022 23 production of Princess Ida byThe Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island and between April 16 amp July 1 2023 conducted 5 performances from the piano 4 with full orchestra and chorus His works and performances are represented on recordings by Opus One Premier Capstone Records Albany Records Original Cast record label Ravello Parma Records and Toccata Classics Discography edit Marc Blitzstein Music for Solo Piano Toccata Classics 0438 2019 Harmonize Your Spirit With My Calm Instrumental Works and Songs to Poetry of Russian and American Poets by Leonard Lehrman amp Joel Mandelbaum with Helene Williams Alexander Mikhalev the Meridian String Quartet and the State Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg Vladimir Lande cond Ravello Records 7951 2016 Leonard Lehrman Helene Williams Lars Woodul and the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus The Elie Siegmeister Centennial CD Original Cast record label 2008 Helene Williams amp Leonard Lehrman Diamond Jubilee Songs By David Diamond Albany Records 2006 Leonard Lehrman The Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert CD performed by Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus amp Soloists Original Cast record label 2005 Lehman Engel Herbert Haufrecht Martin Kalmanoff Robert Kurka Leonard Lehrman Joel Mandelbaum Abel Meeropol Earl Robinson Elie Siegmeister Kurt Weill The Abel Meeropol Centennial Concert performed by Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus amp Soloists Original Cast record label 2003 Leonard Lehrman Gregory Mercer James Sergi and Helene Williams A Marc Blitzstein Songbook Original Cast record label 2001 Eleanor Cory Herbert Deutsch Lukas Foss Morton Gould Andre Hosza Leo Kraft Leonard Lehrman Joel Mandelbaum Angelo Musolino Raoul Pleskow Elie Siegmeister Hale Smith Serge Suny performed by Leonard Lehrman Long Island Composers Alliance Capstone Records 1999 Ralph Alan Dale Daniel Dorff Denise Broadhurst Janis Sabatino Hills Leonard Lehrman Joel Mandelbaum Angelo Musolino Elie Siegmeister Hale Smith Mira J Spektor and Raymond VunKannon Helene Williams Sings More Songs Of Love Long Island Composers Alliance Capstone Records 1999 Adele Berk Leonard Lehrman Elie Siegmeister Jeanne Singer and Albert Tepper Helene Williams Sings Songs Of Love Long Island Composers Alliance Capstone Records 1997 Anne Watson Born Becky Dale Herbert Feldman Frederick Frahm Leo Kraft Leonard Lehrman Matthew Marullo Akmal Parwez Joseph Pehrson Abram M Plum Harriette Slack Richardson George Selbst Judi Silvano The William Cullen Bryant Bicentennial Concert Long Island Composers Alliance Capstone Records 1995 Ronald Edwards Leonard Lehrman Helene Williams A Marc Blitzstein Cabaret Premier Recordings 1990 Leonard Lehrman Peter Schlosser and Helene Williams The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus amp Orchestra We Are Innocent Rosenberg Cantata Opus One 1989 References editAs of this edit this article uses content from Leonard Lehrman biography which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3 0 Unported License but not under the GFDL All relevant terms must be followed WEDDINGS Helene Williams Spierman Leonard Lehrman NY Times July 14 2002 Retrieved 19 February 2018 Lehrman Retrieved on 15 Jan 2018External links editLeonard J Lehrman site Chazzanut online Leonard Lehrman Helene Williams superpages com Court St Music Instruction New York Green Fest 2011 Helene Williams soprano amp Leonard Lehrman composer pianist Songs of Protest Naturism amp Broadway Allmusic Helene Williams The New York Times July 14 2002 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