PRAISE FOR JAMIE BERNSTEIN:“Based on watching youngsters happily bouncing in

their seats…[The Bernstein Beat] is a huge success….

cohesive, coherent…delivered with…the Bernstein

brand of easygoing clarity and infectious enthusiasm.

What fun.”

–SAN ANTONIO ExPRESS

“The Bernstein Beat” should delight adults and children alike. With her animated performing style, plus some interactive tricks [Jamie Bernstein] held a student

audience...enthralled for the full hour. It’s hard to imagine any audience members not tapping their toes and dancing in their seats (which Jamie Bernstein assures us is

perfectly acceptable) to these performances.”

–MINNESOTA STAR-TRIBuNE

“[In Extreme Orchestra] Ms. Bernstein began with

a marvelous deconstruction of...Tchaikovsky. I

couldn’t help thinking that many current maestros…

could have benefited from her explanation....The

young audience was positively transfixed by this

gossamer musicmaking…. A small percentage of the

children behaved quite badly, talking excitedly among

themselves, bobbing up and down in time to the music,

performing various interpretive dances in the hallowed

aisles and generally exhibiting a fractious disregard for

proper concert decorum. It was glorious.”

–ThE NEw YORk SuN

ABOuT JAMIE BERNSTEINNarrator, writer and broadcaster Jamie Bernstein has transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her enthusiasm with others. As a concert narrator, she has appeared with symphonies around the world, performing her acclaimed family and adult concert programs and narrating such concert standards as Walton’s “Facade” and her father Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish.” Jamie hosted and co-created the highly lauded 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 series of Family Concerts for Carnegie Hall, including “Extreme Orchestra,” “Practice, Practice, Practice,” “Meet the Brass Family” and “Meet the Percussion Family.”

Jamie has produced and hosted numerous shows for radio stations in the United States and Great Britain. In 1997, she hosted the New York Philharmonic’s live national radio broadcasts. She has subsequently hosted several series on New York’s classical station, 96.3 FM-WQXR. Most recently, Jamie has developed a series for BBC Radio 3 about music in New York City. A distinguished writer, Jamie’s articles and poetry have appeared in such publications as SYMPHONY, DoubleTake and Gourmet. In addition to spending time with her two children, she enjoys word games, tennis, and trips to the Utah desert. Visit her blog at www.j-beat.blogspot.com.

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COWBOYS, CABALLEROS AND COPLAND!A family concert conceived and developed by Michael Barrett and Jamie Bernstein, narrated by Jamie.

Aaron Copland, the much-beloved patriarch of 20th-century American orchestral music, was a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn. How in the world did he become our musical spokesman for the American West?! Using excerpts from “Billy the Kid,” “Rodeo” and “El Salon Mexico,” Jamie shows how Copland’s music conveys the adventurous energy, the shy sentiment and the great open spaces of the American frontier. A western-style singalong begins the concert, so kids can learn the cowboy tunes and Mexican melodies that Copland so ingeniously reshapes, intertwines and transmogrifies in his music. And for the finale, the audience will take part in a sit-down square dance to the tune of “Hoedown!”

and COMING soon. . .“Happy 250th Birthday, Mozart – You Kid, You!”concerts on Duke Ellington & George Gershwin

fOR GROWNuPSBERNSTEIN ON BROADWAYAn evening of music from Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway musicals, narrated by his daughter Jamie. With orchestra and four soloists. Conceived and developed by Michael Barrett and Jamie Bernstein.

“On the Town,” “Wonderful Town,” “Candide,” “West Side Story”— what a thrilling procession of musicals from the composer Leonard Bernstein! Now his daughter Jamie gives a new generation of audiences an inside look at these marvelous 20th-century classics of Broadway. Melodies soar, sonic textures shimmer, and propulsive rhythms dance in this irrepressible program. Aided by four singers plus orchestra, Jamie brings the songs and ballet music of Bernstein’s most beloved Broadway masterpieces to life though her musical insights and frank and funny anecdotes, and gives a rare glimpse into the creative process behind “West Side Story.”

WE ARE WOMENAn evening of Bernstein music conceived and developed by Michael Barrett and Jamie Bernstein, narrated by Jamie. For four singers, piano, clarinet, drums and bass.

“We Are Women!” These exuberant lyrics kick off an evening of songs by Leonard Bernstein. While the lead-off is from Bernstein’s classic musical “Candide,” it’s now telling a new story. In “We Are Women: the Songs of Leonard Bernstein,” we follow a mother and daughter as they navigate the tricky terrain of the men in their lives. Along the way they learn to accept themselves—and to delight in the love of others as well. Ranging from art songs and opera to such Broadway shows as “On the Town” and “West Side Story,” Bernstein’s evocative, emotional music easily lends itself to telling this new tale. Rich with comedy and drama, “We Are Women” unfolds through the compelling narration of Bernstein’s daughter Jamie.

fOR kIDS & fAMILIESTHE BERNSTEIN BEATA family concert about rhythm featuring the spirited music of Leonard Bernstein, conceived and developed by Michael Barrett and Jamie Bernstein, narrated by Jamie.

Conductor, composer and educator Leonard Bernstein was one of the most beloved and influential Americans in 20th-century culture. His daughter Jamie wants the next century of kids to find out how cool he was! Using the format of her father’s groundbreaking televised “Young People’s Concerts,” Jamie introduces kids to Bernstein and his irresistible music, including selections from his Broadway shows “On the Town” and “West Side Story.” Jamie reveals the secret of understanding the complex rhythms in her father’s music: break ‘em down into “hot dogs and hamburgers!” Audience volunteers help Jamie onstage — and during one piece, everyone gets to shout “MAMBO!!” at the top of their lungs!

EXTREME ORCHESTRA A family concert conceived and developed by Michael Barrett and Jamie Bernstein, narrated by Jamie.

An orchestra is like a collective super-athlete: highly coordinated, intensely trained, and capable of astonishing feats of beauty. So, let’s put the orchestra to the test! Let’s make them play the most challenging music in the repertoire. Using famous works by Tchaikovsky, Mahler and others, the orchestra will play musical examples the wrong way on purpose, to show what’s involved in playing them the right way. In addition to experiencing an orchestral “train wreck,” the audience will take part in singing and chanting games -- as well as a chance to participate in a drawing in which two winners get to conduct the orchestra themselves!