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The New Yorker
November 13, 2023

Jamie, Alexander, and Nina Bernstein compare notes on “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s film about their dad.

The three children of Leonard Bernstein uphold their father’s legacy with waggish exuberance. In September, at the Venice première of “Maestro,” a new film depicting Bernstein’s fraught but loving relationship with their mother, the actress Felicia Montealegre, they gleefully air-conducted along to the end credits, in the irrepressible manner of their father. While the actors’ strike sidelined Bradley Cooper—the film’s director, co-writer, and star—the Bernsteins subbed in as the film’s unofficial mascots. They like to call themselves “the three-headed monster.”

“A former boyfriend of mine coined it,” Jamie, the eldest, said. “Because of all the noise and the carrying on and jokes.” Jamie (blond bob, voice like an oboe) is the memoirist—in 2018, she published “Famous Father Girl”—and the mouthpiece (“I’m a yakker”).

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Sunday Morning - CBS NEWS
November 12, 2023

This past Thursday, Nina Bernstein Simmons, Alexander Bernstein and Jamie Bernstein gathered at their family's Connecticut home to talk about "Maestro," the movie that Bradley Cooper has made about their late parents. Much of the movie was filmed in this house, where the children share cherished memories of their father, the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, and their mother, actress Felicia Montealegre.

Rocca asked, "How much time do you all spend in the house now?"

"Every chance we get," said Jamie. "Weekends and lots of summer-time. It's heaven here."

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People
October 6, 2023

Leonard Bernstein's daughter Jamie and her siblings had a "surreal" experience seeing their family's life portrayed on the big screen.

At a press conference Tuesday attended by PEOPLE, Jamie, 71, reacted to seeing Maestro at its New York Film Festival premiere inside David Geffen Hall, where her late musician father conducted many times before.

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Far Out Magazine
October 4, 2023

The children of the famed conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein have admitted that they were blown away after first seeing Bradley Cooper play their father in the new movie Maestro, which Cooper also directed.

When they appeared at the American premiere of the film, Jamie, Alexander, and Nina discussed their impressions, with Jamie telling Variety, “It took our breath away; it made us gasp. In some pictures, we could tell a little bit that it was Bradley.” 

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Yahoo! Entertainment
October 3, 2023

“This whole project began a good 15 years ago,” explained Jamie Bernstein, daughter of famed composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, at the New York Film Festival’s Spotlight Gala Premiere of “Maestro” at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center. “The evolution of this film has been so intricate and profound, and so many things happened along the way, and so many new people arrived along the way — most significantly Bradley Cooper, who came into the picture about five or six years ago and changed everything.”

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Variety
October 2, 2023

Leonard Bernstein‘s children Jamie, Alexander and Nina were in complete awe the first time they saw Bradley Cooper as the renowned conductor and composer. “It took our breath away, it made us gasp,” Jamie Bernstein told Variety at the North American premiere of “Maestro” at the New York Film Festival. “In some pictures, we could tell a little bit that it was Bradley, but there were certain photographs where we would go, ‘Oh my God!’ It was so amazingly perfect.”

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The Village Sun
September 19, 2023

People often ask us, “When do you start planning next year’s Village Trip?” We usually reply, “The day after the current festival closes.” But this year, the answer is a little different, since we actually got things going on the first day of TVT22. That’s when we met David Milch and Nancy Notaro, who live in the East Village and happened to attend our opening day block party on Eighth Street.

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Classic FM
September 4, 2023

All three of Bernstein’s children attended the world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and could be seen conducting along to the end credits as the film received an almost 10-minute standing ovation from its audience.

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Vanity Fair
August 28, 2023

His daughter Jamie Bernstein speaks for the first time about Bradley Cooper’s transformation to play her father, and the “portrait of a marriage” at the heart of the film.

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The New York Times
May 9, 2023

Leonard Bernstein’s country house hasn’t changed much since the composer hosted Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins there. Jamie Bernstein is OK with that.

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WNYC - All Of It
April 10, 2023

The New York Philharmonic has been performing for over 180 years and is America's oldest operating orchestra. A new podcast from WQXR, The NY Phil Story: Made in New York, launched last week. The podcast dives into the history of the orchestra and the people who have played in it. Host Jamie Bernstein joins us to discuss the history of the NY Phil and take your calls.

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The Bowery Boys
April 7, 2023

For more than 180 years, the New York Philharmonic has been making history here in the city we call home. The NY Phil Story: Made in New York is a podcast about the people, the music, and the city behind America’s oldest orchestra. Host Jamie Bernstein (the daughter of Leonard Bernstein) takes you backstage and into the archives to hear the untold stories of the Philharmonic–right from the very beginning.

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NPR
March 27, 2023

The NY Phil Story: Made in New York is a podcast about the people, the music, and the city behind America's oldest orchestra. Host Jamie Bernstein takes you backstage and into the archives to hear the untold stories of the Philharmonic — right from the very beginning.

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Pasatiempo
Phillip Lutz | For The New Mexican, March 3, 2023

Speaking by video conference from the unpretentious apartment she has long occupied in New York City, Jamie, who at 70 is just two years shy of her father’s age at his death in 1990, is a highly engaging figure in her own right — theatrical in her manner, perceptive in her analysis, and precise in her descriptions of her father’s nocturnal activities.

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Vogue
By Eliseé Browchu, February 3, 2023

After the long-awaited and highly anticipated renovation of the New York Philharmonic’s home, David Geffen Hall opened its doors just in time for the Lunar New Year gala. Co-chaired by Angela Chen, Misook Doolittle, Oscar L. Tang, and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, the evening welcomed the year of the Rabbit in style. Dressed in festive attire and gorgeous gowns, guests gathered in the Leon and Norma Hess Grand Promenade for a private pre-show cocktail hour. 

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Broadway World
By Stephi Wild, December 05, 2022

The Drama Desk award-winning TADA! Youth Theater has announced its 2023 season which includes two original musicals Princess Phooey in February 2023 and Everything About Camp (Almost) in July 2023. Performances are one-hour long, affordable, fun-filled musicals that are perfect for family audiences of ages 3 and above.

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The New Yorker
By Rivka Galchen, October 10, 2022

Geffen Hall’s ambience was under a “curse.” How should it be changed?

“ I have a very specific answer to your question,” Jamie Bernstein told me. Bernstein is the daughter of Leonard Bernstein, the famed conductor and music director of the New York Philharmonic. “At the Moab Music Festival, one of the things they do is the Grotto Concert.” She described taking a boat down the Colorado River, into Canyonlands National Park, then walking a sandy path that led to a small cave.

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The New York Times
September 23, 2022

Sixty years ago tonight, Lincoln Center opened with the first concert at what was then called Philharmonic Hall. The musicians played their instruments. The children of the conductor soon played, too — in the corridors, in the balconies, in their father’s office.

Leonard Bernstein’s daughter Jamie recalled romping in the new building as her father prepared for his “Young People’s Concerts,” which, like the New York Philharmonic’s opening-night performance, were televised. She was 10 years old then. Her brother Alexander was 7.

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Kveller
Jun 3, 2022

Jamie Bernstein spends every day in what she calls “Leonard Bernstein land.” Her father, the iconic composer Leonard Bernstein, may have passed away over 30 years ago, but his legacy is still as vibrant and alive as ever.l season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and welcoming Jamie Bernstein and guest musicians to the stage to delve into the life of one of the most influential figures in American classical music, Leonard Bernstein.”

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