Leonard Jordan Lehrman is an American composer who was born in Kansas, on August 20, 1949, and grew up in

Roslyn, New York Roslyn ( ) is a village in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is the Greater Roslyn area's anchor community. The population was 2,988 at the time of the 2020 census. ...

. Since August 3, 1999, he has resided in

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. 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

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, Elizabeth Korte, Earl Kim, Kyriena Siloti, Harry Levin,

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis ...

, Jean-Jacques Painchaud,

Leon Kirchner Leon Kirchner (January 24, 1919 – September 17, 2009) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he won a Pulitzer Pr ...

, David Del Tredici, James Yannatos,

Karel Husa Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to ...

, William Austin, Robert Palmer, George Gibian, Tibor Kozma, Wolfgang Vacano,

Donald Erb Donald Erb (January 17, 1927 – August 12, 2008) was an American composer best known for large orchestral works such as Concerto for Brass and Orchestra and ''Ritual Observances''. Early years Erb was born in Youngstown, Ohio, graduate ...

, and

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. 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

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; received a master's degree and a doctorate in music composition from

Cornell Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson White in 1865. Since ...

; a master's degree in library science from

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and studied under a Fulbright scholarship in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. 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

Lehrman has composed 284 works to date, including 12 operas and 7 musicals. He composed also more than 400 vocal works.Lehrman
Retrieved on 15 Jan 2018 He won the 2002 Sunrise/Sunset Competition of the Brookhaven Arts Council in 2002 for his setting of

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(Lewis Allan)'s poem "Conscience". Since 1973 he has worked as conductor, coach, pianist, composer, and/or translator for the

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(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.,

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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),

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(chief producer, 1968–70), ''Dunster Drama Review'' (1970–71), ''Risley Review'' (1973–75),

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(Producer, "Music of All the Americas," 1989–91), ''Opera Monthly'' (associate editor, 1990–94), ''Opera Journal'' (critic, 1995–97), ''

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'' (critic, 1995–2002), ''andante.com'' (2002), ''

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'' (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 Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and Libretto, librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-Trade union, union musical ''The Cradle Will Rock'', directed by Orson Welles, ...

; ''Karla'' (1974); and ''Suppose A Wedding'' (1996), based on two stories and a play by

Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish ...

); ''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 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

's ''Yubilei''; ''New World: An Opera About What Columbus Did to the "Indians"'' (1991), libretto in collaboration with Joel Shatzky; ''

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'' –completion of work begun by

; ''The Wooing'' (2003), libretto by

based on

's ''The Boor''; ''The Triangle Fire'' (2016), libretto by

Ellen Frankel Ellen Frankel (born 1951) was the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) from 1991 until 2009, and its CEO for ten years. She retired in 2009 to pursue her own writing and scholarly projects, as JPS's first editor emerita. Biogra ...

, 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

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'' (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

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's '' Days of the Commune'' (1971) and '' Round Heads and Pointed Heads'' (1973), 20

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songs, 13

Gerhard Bronner Gerhard Bronner (23 October 1922 in Favoriten, Vienna – 19 January 2007 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period. Life Born to ...

cabaret songs, Harry Oschitzki (Andy Orieli) and

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cycles, and other poems and essays from the German;

Emmanuel Chabrier Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (; 18 January 184113 September 1894) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer and pianist. His Bourgeoisie, bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked ...

's ''L'Etoile'' (1988) and ''An Incomplete Education'' (2006) and songs by

Claude Debussy Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...

(10),

Jacques Brel Jacques Romain Georges Brel (; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, but later throughout the world ...

, and

Georges Brassens Georges Charles Brassens (; ; 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and ...

from the French; songs by Ya'acov Rotblit and

Naomi Shemer Naomi Shemer (; July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was a leading Israeli musician and songwriter, hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry." Her song " Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), written in 1967, became an unoffic ...

from the Hebrew; "In der Fremd" from the Yiddish by

Leib Naidus Leib Naidus (1890–1918, , ) was a Yiddish Language, Yiddish poet and literary translator from the Russian Empire. He died young and his poems were not widely published during his lifetime, but they were printed in a number of volumes in the 1920s ...

; an ode by Euripides from the ancient Greek;

Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (; ; ; – ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five (composers), The Five." He was an innovator of Music of Russia, Russian music in the Romantic music, Romantic period and strove to achieve a ...

's '' Zhenitba'' (''Getting Married'') (1973),

Mikhail Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka ( rus, links=no, Михаил Иванович Глинка, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, mʲɪxɐˈil ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡlʲinkə, Ru-Mikhail-Ivanovich-Glinka.ogg; ) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognit ...

's ''

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'' (1979), and

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(1986) from the Russian – in collaboration with his mother, Emily R. Lehrman (1923–2015), along with poems by

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films. Biography Early lif ...

and

Andrei Voznesensky Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (, 12 May 1933 – 1 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s ...

(1967);

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(1970);

Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; , . ( – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova,. ...

Alexander Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok ( rus, Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok, a=Ru-Alyeksandr Alyeksandrovich Blok.oga; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publ ...

Afanasy Fet Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet ( rus, Афана́сий Афана́сьевич Фет, p=ɐfɐˈnasʲɪj ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈfʲɛt, a=Ru-Afanasiy Afanas'yevich Fyet.oga), later known as Shenshin ( rus, Шенши́н, p=ʂɨnˈʂɨn, a=Ru-Afa ...

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Gavrila Derzhavin Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin (, ; 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman. Although his works are traditionally considered literary classicis ...

(all 1977); Velemir Khlebnikov and

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(1986); Yefim Medvedovsky (2013–2016); and Galina Leybovich (2015). In 2016 he translated

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's opera ''

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'', based on the

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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,

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, Ravello (Parma Records), and Toccata Classics.

Discography

* "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,"

(2008) * Helene Williams & Leonard Lehrman, "Diamond Jubilee: Songs By David Diamond,"

(2006) * Leonard Lehrman, "The Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert CD," performed by Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus & Soloists,

(2005) *

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, Herbert Haufrecht, Martin Kalmanoff,

Robert Kurka Robert Frank Kurka (December 22, 1921 – December 12, 1957) was an American composer, who also taught and conducted his own works. Biography Kurka was born in Cicero, Illinois. He was mostly self-taught as a musician. He studied for short period ...

, Leonard Lehrman, Joel Mandelbaum,

Earl Robinson Earl Hawley Robinson (July 2, 1910 – July 20, 1991) was an American composer, arranger and folk music singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is remembered for his music, including the cantata " Ballad for Americans" and songs s ...

, Elie Siegmeister,

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (; ; March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for hi ...

, "The Abel Meeropol Centennial Concert," performed by Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus & Soloists,

(2003) * Leonard Lehrman, Gregory Mercer, James Sergi, and Helene Williams, "A Marc Blitzstein Songbook,"

(2001) * Eleanor Cory,

Herbert Deutsch Herbert Arnold "Herb" Deutsch (February 9, 1932 – December 9, 2022) was an American composer, inventor, and educator. Until his death in 2022, he was professor emeritus of electronic music and composition at Hofstra University. He was best kno ...

Lukas Foss Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor. Career Born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922, Foss was soon recognized as a child prodigy. He began piano and theory lessons with J ...

Morton Gould Morton Gould (December 10, 1913February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. Biography Morton Gould was born in Richmond Hill, New York, United States. He was of Austrian-Jewish heritage. He was recognized ear ...

, Andre Hosza, Leo Kraft, Leonard Lehrman, Joel Mandelbaum, Angelo Musolino, Raoul Pleskow, Elie Siegmeister,

Hale Smith Hale Smith (June 29, 1925 – November 24, 2009) was an American composer, arranger, and pianist.De Lerma, Dominique-Rene"African Heritage Symphonic Series" Liner note essay. Cedille CDR061. Biography Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he learned pian ...

, Serge Suny, performed by Leonard Lehrman, "Long Island Composers Alliance,"

(1999) * Ralph Alan Dale,

Daniel Dorff Daniel Dorff (born March 7, 1956) is an American classical musician and classical composer. Biography and career Dorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Flower Hill, New York, graduating from Roslyn High School.A Compact ...

, Denise Broadhurst, Janis Sabatino Hills, Leonard Lehrman, Joel Mandelbaum, Angelo Musolino, Elie Siegmeister,

, Mira J. Spektor, and Raymond VunKannon, "Helene Williams Sings More Songs Of Love," "Long Island Composers Alliance,"

(1999) * Adele Berk, Leonard Lehrman, Elie Siegmeister, Jeanne Singer, and Albert Tepper, "Helene Williams Sings Songs Of Love", "Long Island Composers Alliance,"

(1997) * Anne Watson Born, Becky Dale, Herbert Feldman, Frederick Frahm, Leo Kraft, Leonard Lehrman, Matthew Marullo, Akmal Parwez,

Joseph Pehrson Joseph Pehrson (August 14, 1950 – April 4, 2020) was an American composer and pianist. Life Pehrson comes from Detroit, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan and Eastman School of Music. (D.M.A. 1981). His teachers include Lesl ...

, Abram M. Plum, Harriette Slack Richardson, George Selbst, Judi Silvano, "The William Cullen Bryant Bicentennial Concert," "Long Island Composers Alliance,"

(1995) * Ronald Edwards, Leonard Lehrman, Helene Williams, "A arcBlitzstein 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

External links

Leonard J. Lehrman site

* ttp://www.allmusic.com/artist/helene-williams-mn0002270572 Allmusic – Helene Williams
The New York Times, July 14, 2002 – WEDDINGS; Helene Williams-Spierman, Leonard Lehrman

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