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9:00 PM FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
BENNETT GORDON HALL
CELEBRATING LEONARD BERNSTEIN AT 100
LATE NIGHT WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN
An evening of music, anecdotes, and remembrances
JAMIE BERNSTEIN,
host
AMY BURTON,
soprano
†
MICHAEL BORISKIN,
piano
†
JOHN MUSTO,
piano
†
†
Ravinia debut
Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of
Sponsor
Barbara and Jim Herst
.
JORGE FEDERICO OSORIO,
piano
Jorge Federico Osorio began piano studies
in his native Mexico at age 5 with his mother,
Luz María Puente, and went on to attend music
conservatories in Mexico, Paris, and Moscow,
where his teachers included Bernard Flavigny,
Monique Haas, and Jacob Milstein. He has also
been mentored by Nadia Reisenberg and Wil-
helm Kempff, and he is now a faculty member
of Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of
Performing Arts. Osorio’s numerous honors
include the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Gina
Bachauer Award and the Medalla Bellas Artes,
the highest honor given by Mexico’s National
Institute of Fine Arts. Concert tours have tak-
en him to Europe, Asia, and the Americas with
such ensembles as Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas,
Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Seattle Symphony Or-
chestras; the Israel, Warsaw, and Royal Philhar-
monics; the state orchestras of Moscow, France,
and Mexico; and London’s Philharmonia Or-
chestra and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Or-
chestra. Osorio performed all five of Beethoven’s
piano concertos over two nights at Ravinia in
2010, and he has also performed at the Holly-
wood Bowl and the Newport and Grant Park
Festivals, among others. Also making regular
recital appearances across the United States, he
has recently performed in Boston, San Francis-
co, New York, and Chicago, with overseas en-
gagements recently including Leipzig’s Gewand-
haus and stops in Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf,
and Stuttgart in addition to tours of Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Spain. As a chamber
musician, Osorio has performed in a trio with
violinist Mayumi Fujikawa and cellist Richard
Markson; has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Ani
Kavafian, Elmar Oliveira, and Henryk Szeryng;
and was previously artistic director of Mexico’s
Brahms Chamber Music Festival. His many re-
cordings on the Artek, ASV, CBS, Cedille, EMI,
IMP, and Naxos labels have established him as
one of the world’s greatest interpreters of Span-
ish piano music. Jorge Federico Osorio made
his Ravinia debut in 1998 and tonight makes his
ninth appearance at the festival.
JAMIE BERNSTEIN,
host
Jamie Bernstein is an author, narrator, and film-
maker who has transformed a lifetime of loving
music into a career of sharing her knowledge and
excitement with others. Her memoir,
Famous
Father Girl
, which was published in June, details
her youth spent in an atmosphere bursting with
music, theater, and literature—her father, com-
poser-conductor Leonard Bernstein, and her
mother, pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre,
filled the house with a who’s-who of friends in
arts and letters and cultivated Jamie’s lifelong
cultural enthusiasm. Inheriting her father’s pas-
sion for communicating excitement about the
classical arts, Bernstein has written and nar-
rated concerts for audiences of all ages about
Mozart, Copland, and Stravinsky, among others,
and she created “The Bernstein Beat,” a family
concert about her father modeled after his own
groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts. She
also recently devised a spiritual revival of his
Young People’s Concerts in “Leonard Bernstein:
100 Years Young” for the present worldwide cel-
ebration of his centennial. As a concert narrator,
Bernstein has appeared everywhere from Bei-
jing to Vancouver to London. In addition to her
own scripts, she also performs standard concert
narrations such as Walton’s
Facade
, Copland’s
A Lincoln Portrait
, and her father’s Symphony
No. 3 (“Kaddish”). Additionally, Bernstein is a
frequent speaker on musical topics around the
world, from conferences in Japan to seminars at
Harvard University, and she has produced and
hosted radio shows in the United States and the
United Kingdom, including live national broad-
casts of the New York Philharmonic and from
Tanglewood. Bernstein co-directed the docu-
mentary
Crescendo: The Power of Music
, which
focuses on children in struggling urban com-
munities who participate in socially transforma-
tive youth orchestra programs inspired by Ven-
ezuela’s groundbreaking El Sistema movement.
The film won numerous prizes on the festival
circuit. Beyond performance scripts, Bernstein
has also written articles and poetry for such
publications as
Symphony
,
DoubleTake
,
Town
& Country
,
Gourmet
,
Opera News
, and
Musical
America
, and she edits “Prelude, Fugue & Riffs,”
a newsletter about issues and events pertaining
to her father’s legacy.
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