Hosted Talk by Jamie Bernstein

LEONARD BERNSTEIN:
CITIZEN ARTIST

A PRESENTATION FOR MUSIC STUDENTS

The Leonard Bernstein Office is offering a brand-new, hourlong presentation—Leonard Bernstein: Citizen Artist—to engage and inform young musicians about Bernstein’s life and work, so that they may look to him as a role model and inspiration in their own artistic efforts.

In today’s world, where young musicians struggle with the notion that being an artist doesn’t do enough to help a troubled planet, Jamie feels more strongly than ever that her father’s approach to music will resonate deeply with music students.

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FAMOUS FATHER GIRL

A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

“Jamie Bernstein's book about her fabled father not only takes us closer to Leonard Bernstein than anything yet published but stands by itself as a beautifully written and unflinchingly courageous expression of love, exasperation, amazement and forgiveness.”
—Tim Page

“Growing up in the presence of a superfamous parent is no easy thing. Jamie Bernstein presents an undisguised and understanding picture of her father, family, and friends. She chronicles her emergence as a partisan of ideals in which they believed. The book is full of inside stories and personal perspectives on the inspiring, spontaneous, and often no-holds-barred challenges of Bernstein’s multiple worlds.”
— Michael Tilson Thomas