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March 9, 2022
Now with her father’s musical, West Side Story brought to the big screen for the second time in multi award-winning fashion, we sat down with Jamie to discuss the musical that she and her younger brother and sister, Alexander and Nina, refer to as the “fourth sibling”.
Read MoreLittle Known Facts with Ilana Levine
February 28, 2022
Today's episode features Jamie Bernstein- a writer, narrator, broadcaster and filmmaker who has transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her knowledge and excitement with others.
Read MoreRTÉ Ireland’s National Public Service Media
October 19, 2021
On the film's 60th anniversary, RTÉ Arena welcomed Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, and author of the book, Famous Father Girl, to talk about her memories of that time and the impact of this timeless classic.
Read MoreJamie Bernstein - Forward.com
August 25, 2021
Editor’s Note: Today, Aug. 25, 2021, would have been Leonard Bernstein’s 103rd birthday. In honor of that auspicious date, we are revisiting this excerpt from his daughter Jamie’s memoir.
The following is an excerpt from “Famous Father Girl,” by Jamie Bernstein. Copyright © 2018 by Jamie Bernstein. Reprinted courtesy of Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Read MoreRobert Niles - Violinist.com
August 7, 2021
Ravinia Festival is celebrating the musical and humanitarian legacy of Leonard Bernstein with a new permanent installation, "Bernstein's Answer."
Read MoreRichard Sandomir - The New York Times
March 5, 2021
He collaborated with the charismatic conductor Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic for 14 years of programs aimed at educating children about the joys of music.
Read MoreHouston Chamber Choir
July 3, 2020
Arts and culture expert St. John Flynn talks with Jamie Bernstein, an author, narrator and filmmaker. We had the opportunity to welcome Jamie as a guest collaborator with the Houston Chamber Choir in our 2017-2018 season's "Tonight, Tonight Won't Be Just Any Night" concert.
Read MoreLynda Lopez - WCBS Newsradio 880
March 5, 2020
Inspired by the recent filming of Stephen Spielberg’s “West Side Story” in Paterson, the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts will present a “Wide Side Story in Paterson” Gala, March 6 at the Westmount Country Club in Woodland Park (formerly known as West Paterson). The event will feature performances by students from the Wharton’s Paterson Music Project, New Jersey Youth Symphony and the Performing Arts School.
The institute will also present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Jamie Bernstein, whose father, Leonard Bernstein, composed the “West Side Story” score. Attendees will receive a copy of Bernstein’s 2018 memoir, “Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein.”
Read MoreEzvid Wiki Editorial
March 3, 2020
Taking the #4 spot is Jamie Bernstein, an author, narrator, and filmmaker. Her memoir, Famous Father Girl, details growing up with her father, composer Leonard Bernstein, whose works include the musicals On the Town and West Side Story. He also served as chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and counted friendships with choreographer Jerome Robbins, John Lennon, and Lauren Bacall.
Read MoreConway Lynch - Reading EagleMarch 1, 2020
Jamie Bernstein can remember the exact moment she realized how famous her father was.
“It happened when my brother, sister and me were watching 'The Flintstones,' and Betty and Wilma were going to the Hollyrock Bowl to hear Leonard Bernstone conduct.”
Read MoreRyan McFabin - City Lights WABE 90.1 FM
February 18, 2020
To know Bernstein from his work was to see a brilliant artist with the phenomenal ability to communicate through words and music. To know him personally was to see a complex and often conflicted man. No one has a better perspective than the conductor’s daughter Jamie Bernstein. Her memoir, “Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein,” explores the lasting legacy of Bernstein.
Read MoreBroadway World
February 12, 2020
The gala is inspired by Steven Spielberg's remake of the classic movie which was partially filmed last summer in Paterson, the home of the Wharton Institute's Paterson Music Project. The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Jamie Bernstein, whose father, Leonard Bernstein, composed "West Side Story's" groundbreaking score. The evening will also feature a welcome by Paterson Mayor André Sayegh.
Read MoreBy Johanna DeBiase - Taos News
August 22, 2019
Celebrities always hold a special power over the general populace. People are drawn to fame like they’re drawn to the popular girl in high school. We want to be near to them to absorb some of their shine. But what if you have no choice in the matter? What if the celebrity is your own dad?
Read MoreCafé Classicale with Felice Coral - WOMR / WFMR
August 13, 2019
By Robin Collier - KCEI 90.1 FM - CulturalEnergy.org
August 2019
By Howard Reich - Chicago Tribune
July 28, 2019
Though Bernstein remains a legendary figure who died in 1990 at age 72, the man behind the mystique shone through lucidly on Saturday evening, thanks in large part to the narration of Jamie Bernstein, his daughter. Such onstage recitations often range from ponderous to irritating, but Jamie Bernstein’s expertly crafted script – and exuberant delivery – took us inside the man’s life in exquisitely succinct fashion.
Read MoreBy Scott C. Morgan - Daily Herald
June 14, 2019
Centennial celebrations tied to the birth of late composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein officially ended last year. But the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park is keeping the party going with "Bernstein 101: The Celebration Continues," featuring a series of classical concerts, stage performances, film screenings and the Grammy Museum's traveling "Leonard Bernstein at 100" exhibit…
Jamie Bernstein is returning to Ravinia this summer to promote her father's legacy as a concert narrator and a pre-screening panelist to two Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances: "Lenny: A Musical Portrait in Symphony, Song and Story" on Saturday, July 27, and "On the Waterfront" (a live performance of Bernstein's score for the 1954 film).
Read MoreBy Bill Brownstein - Montreal Gazette
May 28, 2019
The choirs of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim and St. Matthias Anglican Church will join forces for the first time at a tribute to Leonard Bernstein — a sign of religious unity in a time of division.
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim and St. Matthias Anglican Church are two of the oldest religious institutions in the city, dating back, respectively, to 1846 and 1875. They boast among the most renowned choirs in the land. They are across the street from one another, mere steps away, in Westmount. Yet for the first time in their histories, their choirs will be joining forces on stage, in a tribute to the music of legendary maestro and composer Leonard Bernstein.
Read MoreHosted by Bill Radke - KUOW.org
April 1, 2019
Leonard Bernstein was the most famous American conductor/composer of his day. His daughter Jamie, a filmmaker and music educator, has written a memoir of her life with him called Famous Father Girl. She’s in town for the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, which is screening a documentary called “Leonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life.”
Read MoreBy Dusty Somers - Special to The Seattle Times
March 20, 2019
To watch Leonard Bernstein conduct is to be brought under the spell of his exuberance — the grand sweep of his gestures, the intense rictus of his expression. Georg Wübbolt’s hourlong documentary “Leonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life” opens with a montage of impassioned conducting, and the effect is electrifying.
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