Orlando Sentinel
November 1, 2024
After 17 people were killed at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018 — the deadliest mass shooting ever at a U.S. high school — producer Portia Kamons and composer Ron Ramin felt called to action.
“We set out to create something to soothe America’s collective grief,” Kamons said, “but as we met the young people leading the charge for meaningful change, we chose to make this project about them.”
Read MoreThe Times
October 6, 2024
Interview: The composer’s daughter Jamie shares memories of her childhood and Bradley Cooper’s film Maestro as the Royal Opera House stages her father’s operas for the first time
Read MoreClassical-Music.com by BBC Music Magazine
September 15, 2024
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Jamie Bernstein discuss how Bradley Cooper embodied the late great conductor Leonard Bernstein in appearance, movement and, of course, conducting...
Moab Sun News
Aug 30, 2024
The Moab Music Festival was founded by Michael Barrett and Leslie Tompkins over 30 years ago, and the influence of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein was present even then. This season, the festival is holding a free screening of the biopic film “Maestro,” along with a presentation from Berstein’s daughter Jamie.
Salon.com
June 13, 2024
On "Everything Fab Four," the author discusses being John and Yoko's neighbor and learning Beatles music theory
Author, filmmaker and narrator Jamie Bernstein – daughter of legendary composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein – joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about meeting the Beatles, becoming neighbors with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, “Maestro” (which was based on her memoir, “Famous Father Girl”) and much more on “Everything Fab Four.”
Read MorePBS - American Masters
March 5, 2024
What would it be like to see your family life portrayed in a movie?
For siblings Jamie, Alexander and Nina Bernstein, that question has been answered. As the children of composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre, their parents’ lives are the subject of Academy Award-nominated film “Maestro.” Directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, the movie is a portrait of the complicated relationship between the couple from the early days of their courtship through marital challenges and final moments – exploring intimate and controversial aspects of Bernstein’s private life.
Read MoreHarvard Medicine: The Magazine of Harvard Medical School
March 1, 2024
Prior to the premiere of “Maestro,” HMS alumni discussed the influence of music on emotion with Jamie Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein’s daughter
What effect does music have on our inner world? And how does a composer’s psychology manifest in their work? Jamie Bernstein, AB ’74, Samuel Wong, MD ’88, and Patrick Whelan, HMS part-time lecturer on pediatrics, explored these questions on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 Norton Lectures in Poetry.
Read MoreThe Village Sun
February 27, 2024
Like opening a rocking time capsule from the 1960s, the sights, sounds and excitement of Beatlemania came to life once again for one special night at City Winery, thanks to The Village Trip festival.
Titled “It Was 60 Years Ago Today: A Beatles Conversation With Cousin Brucie and Jamie Bernstein,” the Feb. 5 event at Pier 57 brought together Beatles fans to hear legendary radio DJ Bruce Morrow and Jamie Bernstein, the daughter of composer Leonard Bernstein, share their memories of and reflections on those heady days. Joining them on the bill was Blac Rabbit, a Brooklyn rock duo who uncannily channel the Fab Four’s sound.
Read MoreNew York Philharmonic
January 30, 2024
Leonard Bernstein had an affinity for the music of Gustav Mahler, as seen in the climax of the Oscar-nominated 2023 Netflix film “Maestro.” In this special episode of the podcast Embrace Everything, we explore what the two musicians had in common, and learn how Bernstein brought Mahler back into the spotlight in the 1960s. Guests include Jamie Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein's daughter) and Gabe Smith (New York Philharmonic Director of Archives and Exhibitions). Special thanks to the New York Philharmonic for adding archival images to accompany the audio. Hosted by Aaron Cohen.
Town & Country
January 27, 2024
If you're a read-the-book-before-you-see-the-movie type of person, add these books to your reading list ASAP.
Famous Father Girl: The Intimate Memoir of Leonard Bernstein and His Family That Helped Inspire the New Movie Maestro
This memoir of Leonard Bernstein, written by his daughter Jamie, partly inspired Bradley Cooper's Maestro. "There was simply no moment when Leonard Bernstein wasn't being a teacher," she writes. "It was words, above all, that he shared with us in all their glorious incarnations."
Read MoreThe Harvard Gazette
January 24, 2024
Alum recalls dad’s love of Harvard, learning as biopic draws Oscar noms
Before Leonard Bernstein ’39 became the legendary composer and conductor portrayed by Bradley Cooper in the Oscar-nominated biopic “Maestro,” he studied and played music as an undergraduate at Harvard.
“Our father gave education the highest value in life, and he was very proud to be a Harvard alumnus,” said daughter Jamie Bernstein ’74.
Read MoreEarly Bird Books
January 17, 2024
Many of 2023's best movies were based on books.
A new year is upon us, which means we’re only a few months away from the Oscars. 2023 was a fascinating year for film, particularly the kinds that the Academy likes to reward: biopics, historical dramas, musicals, costume dramas, and stories that make you gasp with wonder at how the hell they ever pulled that off.
Read MoreClassicalMusic.com by BBC Music Magazine
January 16, 2024
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Jamie Bernstein discuss how Bradley Cooper embodied the late great conductor Leonard Bernstein in appearance, movement and, of course, conducting...
Town & Country
January 6, 2024
Curious to learn more about Leonard Bernstein? Add these books to your TBR list.
A brand-new biographical film of Leonard Bernsteinn, Maestro, is now streaming on Netflix, but Bradley Cooper's film only offers a snippet of the life of the famed composer and conductor.
These 10 books about Leonard Bernstein—including Jamie's memoir, Famous Father Girl, which partly inspired Cooper in making Maestro—are key in understanding the man, "the human being," as Jamie writes, behind the fame. Here, what to read after Maestro:
Read MoreHarvey Brownstone Interviews
December 28, 2023
Today’s guest, Jamie Bernstein, is an author, narrator, director, broadcaster and filmmaker who also happens to be the daughter of one of the greatest legendary composers and conductors the world has ever known, Leonard Bernstein.
The Hollywood Reporter
December 24, 2023
Siblings Jamie, Alexander, and Nina Bernstein on conducting the Venice Film Festival audience, re-living their mother's death on screen, and why Bradley Cooper was the perfect embodiment of their conducting legend father: "He and our dad are so much alike."
Town & Country
By Jamie Bernstein
December 21, 2023
Leonard Bernstein's daughter, Jamie, reflects on their relationship, from the August 2008 issue of Town & Country.
When we were little and shared a room, my brother, Alexander, and I used to drift off to sleep at right angles to each other, listening to the steady waves of laughter, piano playing and singing emanating from our parents and all their witty, noisy friends downstairs. This is what grown-ups did: they drank and smoked and interrupted one another and played raucous word games and sang at the top of their lungs and laughed until they choked. We couldn’t wait to be grown-ups.
Read MoreTIME
By Jamie Bernstein
December 20, 2023
Five years ago, my dad would have turned 100. The Leonard Bernstein Centennial was a pretty big deal—but I didn’t really grasp the scope of my father’s impact until I started traveling around the country giving talks about my memoir, Famous Father Girl, which came out that same year. Everywhere I went, I met scores of older people who had been there: at Carnegie Hall, at Tanglewood, at the Kennedy Center, and beyond. They’d bought the records; they knew his Broadway shows. The Lenny fan base lives!
Houston City Book
December 13, 2023
A SPECIAL GUEST attended Houston-based chamber orchestra ROCO’s annual holiday fundraiser. Jamie Bernstein, the daughter of composer Leonard Bernstein, attended the festive evening, which coincided with the release of the talked-about movie Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper as Leonard. (Cooper just received a Golden Globe nom for the role.)
WNYC - All Of It
December 7, 2023
The new film "Maestro" is directed by Bradley Cooper, who stars as famed composer and New York Philharmonic conductor Leonard Bernstein, alongside Carrie Mulligan as his wife Felicia. Their oldest daughter, Jamie Bernstein, host of the WQXR podcast, The NY Phil Story: Made in New York,, joins us to discuss watching her parent's love story come to life. "Maestro" is in select theaters now and will be on Netflix December 20.