I.a. complete performances:
  1. Herman Liebman Memorial Concerts, Vladeck Hall, Bronx NY 3/29/87 
[1st perf together]
  2. Libertarian Book Club - Workmen's Circle NYC 4/23/87
  3. and 4. The Alchemical Thtr, NYC & Bel Canto Opera's "The Shop" 5/3/87 (2)
  5. Reynolds Hills Concert Series, Buchanan NY 8/87
  6. Cornell University, Barnes Hall 10/12/87
  7. State University of NY/Cortland 10/14/87
  8. Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead NY* 10/87
  9. Jewish Currents  Annual Concert 12/5/87
10. University of Lowell (at Temple Emanuel, Lowell, MA) 3/16/89
11. Boston University - CLA Forum 3/17/89
12. Harvard University - Adams House 3/18/89
13. Community Church of Boston 3/19/89
14. Brandeis University Women's Festival 3/20/89
15. Columbia University* - Earl Hall 2/8/90
16. and 17. Queens College, NYC* 2/14&15/90 (2)
18. Temple Bethel, Sudbury MA 2/26/90
19. Wellesley College 3/3/90
20. Bryant Library, Roslyn NY 5/15/90
21. Emanu-El Midtown Y Don Geller Lecture Series, NYC 5/23/90
22. WESPAC-N.O.W., Unitarian Fellowship of White Plains NY 6/1/90
23. International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands 6/8/90
24. Haus der Kirche, West Berlin, Germany 6/19/90
25. Deutsch-Nordamerikanische Gesellschaft, East Berlin, Germany 6/24/90
26. U.S. Peace Committee, Paris, France 6/29/90
27. Dartmouth College 11/9/90
28. N.Y. Society for Ethical Culture 2/9/91
29. Peninsula Public Library, Lawrence NY 4/7/91
30. National Opera Association Convention, Northwestern University 11/13/91
31. American University, Washington DC 11/21/91
32. Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco 12/27/91
33. Rosebud Cafe, Pittsburgh, Berkman Memorial Centennial 7/23/92
34. Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst, Rethinking Marxism  Conference 11/14/92
35. Long Island University, C.W. Post College 6/27/94
36. The Puffin Room 3/9/07
37. Great Neck House 3/11/07
38. PeaceSmiths Forum,  Amityville, NY 3/16/07
39. Long Beach Public Library 3/25/07
40. Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck NJ 4/29/07
41. The Living Theatre, co-sponsored by Libertarian Book Club 5/1/07
42. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Walter J. Lear Collection 5/26/09

I. b. radio/TV broadcasts of interviews & excerpts: 
  1. WBAI Cynthia Bell 3/24/87
  2. WEVD Ruth Jacobs 3/30/87
  3. WNYC Andre Bernard 3/31/87
  4. WCWP Shirley Samberg 4/16/88
  5. WHRB (Harvard) David Elliott 3/89
  6. WKCR (Columbia) 2/6/90
  7. WPBX Barbara Goldowsky 5/90
  8. WQXR "The Listening Room" with Robert Sherman 5/23/90
  9. ArtScene with Shirley Romaine, Cablevision Ch. 44 & 10  
interview & excerpts 1/2,3,6,7/91
10. and 11. WFMT Studs Terkel & WBEZ Mara Tapp, Chicago 11/91 (2) 
12. and 13. KPFA (Berkeley) Dennis Bernstein & KALW interview & excerpts 12/91
14. WUSB George Wallace 10/3/02

I.c. noteworthy excerpt performances
1.  NYU Tamiment Library Emma Goldman Memorial - w/Candace Falk, 
Gloria Steinem 5/14/90
2.  Tarrytown Town Hall - w/Pete Seeger, Ramsey Clark, Amy Goodman 
3/15/91 see VIc 
3. Emma Goldman birthday celebration 6/27/04 - together w/Blitzstein Cabaret,
Madison WI [Va12]
4.  Memorial to Paul Avrich, presented by Libertarian Book Club
at Brecht Forum, Manhattan: Leonard performed  Overture 4/11/06
5. People's Voice Cafe 2/17/07 - see XVb
6. NCRRC, Local 802, in memory of Howard Zinn 6/17/10
7. Court Street Music, in memory of Susan June Blake 6/27/10
8. The Broadway You Know & Don't Know, 2011-2013 (XVIIt #1-11) 
9. Jewish Opera Lecture #5 at Community Church of NY 5/13/15
10. Emma Goldman Sesquicentennial, Ann Arbor MI 6/26-27/19
11. Emma Goldman birthday celebration 6/28/19 -
    together w/Blitzstein-Bernstein-Berryman-Lehrer-Lehrman Cabaret, Madison WI


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Helene Williams as Emma Goldman, and Leonard Lehrman at the piano as all the men in her life. Performance at Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, October 1987. Photo: N.S. Lehrman
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