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NPR’S SCOTT SIMON JOINS THE BSO
IN A SALUTE TO BERNSTEIN
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Saturday, May 5, 2018, 7pm
Marin Alsop, Music Director
Scott Simon, commentator
Featuring special guest Jamie Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein Overture to Candide

Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
The Great Lover Displays Himself
Lonely Town (Pas de deux)
Times Square, 1944
CBS Music
Various

A Bernstein Birthday Bouquet
Luciano Berio: “For Lenny” (LB.AM.LB.M.W.IS.LB)
John Corigliano: “For Lenny, with love
—and candor…”
John Williams: “To Lenny! To Lenny!”
“Mambo” from West Side Story
The concert will end at approximately 8:15 pm.
Join us in the lobby of the Meyerhoff for a post-concert party with live
entertainment, CD signing with Marin Alsop and book signing with Scott Simon.
About the Artists
Morning. Simon received the Order of
Lincoln from the State of Illinois in 2016,
the state’s highest honor.
Marin Alsop
Scott Simon last appeared with the BSO in
Scott Simon
Scott Simon is one of
America’s most admired
writers and broadcasters,
having reported from
all over the world and
many wars. He is the award-winning
host of Weekend Edition Saturday. With
over 4 million listeners, it is the most-
listened-to news program on NPR. Simon
has written eight books and has one of
the largest personal media followings on
Twitter. He also hosts public television
specials and creates stories for CBS Sunday
November 2015, narrating Philip Glass’s Icarus
at the Edge of Time, Marin Alsop, conductor.
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7.
Jamie Bernstein
Jamie Bernstein is
a writer, narrator,
broadcaster and
filmmaker who has
transformed a lifetime
of loving music into a career of sharing her
knowledge and excitement with others. 
Inspired by her father Leonard
Bernstein’s lifelong impulse to share and
teach, Jamie has devised multiple ways of

communicating her own excitement about
orchestral music. Beginning 15 years ago
with The Bernstein Beat, a family concert
about her father’s music modeled after
his own Young People’s Concerts, Jamie
has gone on to design, write and narrate
concerts for worldwide audiences. Jamie
has created a series of educational concerts
with the New World Symphony designed
to attract audienc es of all ages. 
Jamie travels the world as a speaker and
concert narrator, appearing everywhere
from Beijing to London to Vancouver. In
Spanish-speaking locations, Jamie narrates
in Spanish, thanks to her Chilean-born
mother, Felicia Montealegre, who raised
her children to be bilingual.
In her role as a broadcaster, Jamie has
produced and hosted shows in the U.S.
and Great Britain. She has presented the
New York Philharmonic’s live national
radio broadcasts and live broadcasts
from Tanglewood. 
Jamie is co-director of a documentary,
Crescendo: the Power of Music, which
focuses on children in struggling
urban communities who participate
in youth orchestra programs for social
transformation inspired by Venezuela’s
El Sistema. The film has won numerous
prizes and is now viewable on Netflix.
Jamie has also directed her father’s
chamber opera, Trouble in Tahiti,
around the country, including at
Tanglewood this summer.
Jamie’s memoir, Famous Father Girl,
will be published by HarperCollins in
June 2018, when the Leonard Bernstein
at 100 celebrations are underway around
the world.
Jamie also writes articles and poetry,
which have appeared in such publications
as Symphony, Gourmet, Opera News and
Musical America. She also edits “Prelude,
Fugue & Riffs,” a newsletter about issues
and events pertaining to her father’s legacy. 
Jamie Bernstein makes her BSO debut.
About the Concert
For On the Town, West Side Story and
A Bernstein Birthday Bouquet program
notes, please see pages 12 – 14.
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