sentences:  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 Leyb Naydus; 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.