The Liederkranz and the German Society of the City of New York
In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the Revolutionary War present
The Revolutionary Thomas Paine
The instigator of the American Revolution describes his life and work during the early conflict between Great Britain and its American colonies with musical interludes of the period.
Featuring a Q & A with Gary Berton, President of the Thomas Paine Historical Association and an editor of the new Collected Works of Thomas Paine from Princeton University Press.
Saturday April 25, 2026 at 3:00 pm
The Liederkranz
6 East 87th Street, New York, NY 10128
Cocktail Reception - Program – Coffee and Cake
General Admission $15.
For members of the Liederkranz and German Society contribute what you wish.
Reservations at (212) 534-0880 or info@liederkranzny.org
Dr. Ulrich Hartung will act as an elder T. Paine dressed in period costume and reciting from a script describing his early life in England, detailing his activities as a magazine editor in the Philadelphia of 1775 leading up to the publication of Common Sense in 1776, writing The American Crisis and joining General Washington at Valley Forge. Dr. Hartung will be joined by Oksana Krovytska costumed as Marguerite Bonneville, whom he met in France and invited to his farm in New Rochelle, accompanying some appropriate songs on harpsichord. Saturday, September 7, 2024