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Jamie is the
first daughter
of Leonard.
Thile has
recorded
with Ma.
Bernstein
introduced
7-year-old
Ma’s US-debut
performance.
Biss is
Fried’s
son.
Bernstein was
a conducting
mentor to Alsop.
Ran composed
Exuberance
(for Lenny)
for Downes.
Strathairn portrays Shostakovich in
Shostakovich and the Black Monk
.
Terkel
appeared in
the Chicago
Black Sox
movie
Eight
Men Out
with
Strathairn.
Bernstein met
Shostakovich after
leading the latter’s
Fifth Symphony
during the first NY
Phil tour of Russia.
Bernstein sat for
an hourlong 1985
radio interview
with Terkel.
Bernstein’s specialties as
a soloist were concertos
by Gershwin and Ravel.
Ravel refused
Gershwin as
a student,
saying he
already had
top skills.
George and
Ira Gershwin
are brothers.
Feinstein was
an assistant
to I. Gershwin
Feinstein interviewed Sondheim
on his
American Songbook
show.
McDonald starred
in three Sondheim
musicals at Ravinia.
McDonald won a
Tony with the play
Master Class
, based
on the life of Callas.
Callas had
an affair with
Onassis.
“Jackie” Kennedy
married Onassis.
Kennedy Onassis
commissioned
Mass
from Bernstein.
Bernstein led
Cherubini’s
Medea
at La
Scala, starring
Callas.
Stern
premiered
Bernstein’s
Serenade
.
Corigliano was the NY
Phil’s concertmaster
when Bernstein was its
music director.
Composer Corigliano (Jr.)
is NY Phil concertmaster
Corigliano (Sr.)’s son.
Michael is Isaac’s son.
Sondheim
wrote
lyrics for
Bernstein’s
West Side
Story.
Kauffman booked
Alsop’s CSO
debut in 2002.
Kauffman hired
Conlon as
CSO residency
music director
from 2005
to 2015.
Kauffman studied
at Tanglewood
with Bernstein,
once discussing
a musical topic
for several hours.
Conlon studied with
Longy at Juilliard.
Ian appeared on
the documentary
Inside Pop
, hosted
by Bernstein.
Guare based the play
Six
Degrees of Separation
on
the life of a con man who
Bernstein once encountered.
Guare also wrote the
book for the never-
finished Bernstein musical
The Race to Urga
.
Bernstein
studied
with Longy
at Curtis.
Downes created
her
For Lenny
recording with
piano solos by and
about Bernstein.
Zukerman, Fried, and
Ran appeared at a 1966
America-Israel Cultural
Foundation fundraiser
with Bernstein.
Stern conducts Bell
in
The Red Violin
at
Ravinia on 8/21.
Bell recorded
Corigliano’s
score for
The
Red Violin
.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Marin Alsop
Jamie Bernstein
Renée
Longy
James Conlon
Janis Ian
John Guare
Stephen Sondheim
Lara Downes
Isaac Stern
Pinchas Zukerman
Miriam Fried
Shulamit Ran
Jonathan Biss
Yo-Yo Ma
Chris Thile
Michael Stern
Studs Terkel
David Strathairn
Dmitri Shostakovich
Maurice Ravel
Maria Callas
Audra McDonald
Aristotle Onassis
Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis
John
Corigliano
(
Sr.
)
John Corigliano
(
Jr.
)
Joshua Bell
Welz Kauffman
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
Michael Feinstein
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2018
Ravinia
artists
By Graham Meyer