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Court Street Music marks 25 years America — June 15, 2025 — our 25th annual house concert and student recital will be our Court Street Music, a com- 712th performance together,” munity-rooted music school Lehrman said. “But in August, founded in 1999 by composer- 1999, we realized our dream when we purchased pianist Leonard our 10-room house, Lehrman and built in 1928, which soprano Helene included a 1959 Williams in Valley annex that became Stream, will mark our concer t hall its 25th anniversaand where we’ve ry on June 15 with been able to make a free public house many, many recordconcer t and stuings, over 5,000 viddent recital showeos on YouTube, casing emerging with over a million talent and profesLEONARd LEHRmAN views, to date. sional premieres. And to give The 25th annual Co-founder Court numerous recitals, House Concert and Street Music including one each Student Recital on June 15 at 2 p.m., takes place at year in June, featuring perfor33 Court St., the school’s home mances by our students, our colleagues and ourselves,” he studio. Over the past quarter-centu- continued. “We called ourry, Court Street Music has wel- selves Court Street Music, a comed more than 800 students, name shared by only one other o f f e r i n g l e s s o n s i n vo i c e, music school that we know of piano, violin, guitar, bass, in Salem, Oregon. We’re very cello, saxophone, clarinet and lucky that we have neighbors composition. Its annual con- who have recommended their cert tradition highlights stu- friends, and their children’s dent talent and professional friends, to become our stucollaborations, reflecting the dents.” This year’s program feafounders’ mission to make high-level music education and tures a variety of vocal and perfor mance accessible in a instrumental works, including personal, community-focused several premieres. Williams opens the concert with Robert setting. “Helene and I have been Schumann’s song “Widmung,” perfor ming to gether since a piece composed as a wedding March 1987, including many gift for Clara Schumann. The song holds personal meaning house concerts at the homes of friends in Israel, Australia and for Williams and Lehrman, as a c ro s s E u ro p e a n d N o r t h
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elene and I have been performing together since March 1987.
Photo courtesy Northwell Health
With safety and coordination a priority, emergency access remained open as crews used a crane to remove the hospital’s aging MRI equipment.
Dever Elementary School supports hospital’s renovations By ANGELINA ZINGARIELLO
azingariello@liherald.com
Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital is undergoing a significant upgrade to its imaging services, marked by the removal of a 34-year-old MRI machine on June 6 using a Liebherr 300-ton crane positioned on the campus of Dever Elementary School. Dever Elementary School and LIJ Valley Stream Hospital have a long-standing history of collaboration. The partnership took a different form, as the school allowed a large crane to be stationed on its property to support a major equipment operation at the hospital. “I must admit, over the years, and I’ve been here over 20 years, we’ve built a very
strong relationship with them (Dever Elementary School), a two way relationship where we’ve collaborated in a lot of many varieties of community and educational initiatives,” Riza Cioku, vice president of hospital operations, said. “We’ve done it both ways, where they brought children here to our facility, and we’ve done the same thing. We participated in various initiatives for them. So as a result of that, we are grateful for their continued partnership with us and generosity to allow us to be able to do this, especially in the middle of the school season.” The hospital’s MRI machine, a GE Signa 1.5 Tesla unit weighing roughly 17,000 pounds and surrounded by eight steel plates ContInued on page 20
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