Daughter of Leonard Bernstein shares memories of his music, humanitarian work

ASU News
December 1, 2023

In ASU talk, Jamie Bernstein tells students to take their music out into the world

The composer Leonard Bernstein was a virtuoso who spent his entire career using music as a way to bring humanity together.

Bernstein, who died in 1990, was a composer, conductor, educator and humanitarian, according to Jamie Bernstein, his daughter. She gave a talk titled “Leonard Bernstein: Citizen Artist” sponsored by the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University on Thursday.

“The last category was the underpinning for everything else Leonard Bernstein did as a musician,” she said of his humanitarian work.