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Santa Fe, NM, February 1, 2023 – Performance Santa Fe presents a brand-new project celebrating the life and times of composer, conductor, and American classic Leonard Bernstein. A well-known insomniac for whom night was a time for creativity and friendship, deep introspection, and revelry, the iconic Leonard Bernstein worked incessantly, often entertaining friends and guests late into the night and dazzling them with performances across a wide range of musical styles. Late Night with Leonard Bernstein is hosted by his daughter, Jamie, and features three internationally-acclaimed artists – soprano Amy Burton and pianists John Musto and Michael Boriskin. A scintillating and affectionate multimedia portrait of the personal side of this charismatic, singularly public figure, this vibrant production has captivated sold-out audiences across the U.S. Produced by Copland House, this program weaves together a revealing script, a video slideshow of rare photographs of the legendary artist and his family, friends, and colleagues, and Bernstein’s most intimate (and favorite) music, along with personal stories and audio and film clips of the Maestro himself.
Performance Santa Fe is proud to continue our partnership with Collected Works Bookstore to offer signed copies of Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Jamie Bernstein which will be available for purchase in the lobby. Books will also be available at Collected Works Bookstore at 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501.
Presented through the generosity of Mel and Tom Gordon and Heritage Hotels & Resorts
22–23 Season Sponsors: Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily; Leah Gordon
Details
Late Night with Leonard Bernstein
Tuesday, March 7 | 7:30 pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NM 87501
$35–$115
Save up to 50% off your ticket order with student and family discounts
$20 Rush tickets available the day of the performance for patrons under 30
To purchase tickets, visit PerformanceSantaFe.org or call (505) 984 8759.
Late Night with Leonard Bernstein. A multimedia cabaret celebrating the American icon, featuring his daughter, Jamie. Presented by Performance Santa Fe at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Tuesday, March 7, 7:30 pm. Tickets: $35–$115. PerformanceSantaFe.org, 505 984 8759.
About the Performers
Narrator, writer, and broadcaster JAMIE BERNSTEIN became a lifelong cultural enthusiast growing up in the ebullient household of her parents, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein and pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre. Inheriting her father’s passion to share and teach, she has devised several ways of communicating her own excitement about classical music, including The Bernstein Beat, a family concert about her father modeled after his own groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts, and has narrated concerts about Mozart and Copland. From Beijing to Caracas to Vancouver, she has appeared as a concert narrator in music by Sir William Walton, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and others. She has produced or hosted numerous radio and film projects heard and seen throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her best-selling and critically-acclaimed memoir, Famous Father Girl, was recently released in paperback.
Pianist MICHAEL BORISKIN has performed in over 30 countries with leading international orchestras and chamber ensembles, and in major concert halls, including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, BBC, London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin Radio, Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals, and Vienna‘s Arnold Schoenberg Center. He is a frequent presence on NPR as performer, commentator, and host, and has an extensive discography on the SONY Classical, Naxos, New World, Albany, and Bridge labels. He is the longtime Artistic and Executive Director of Copland House, the award-winning creative center for American based at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home near New York City. He has also served as Music Director of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s fabled White Oak Dance Project, and artistic or program advisor for the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, U.S. State Department, and other major institutions.
Soprano AMY BURTON has performed internationally in opera, chamber music, recitals, orchestral concerts, and cabaret. A vital presence on New York’s cultural scene, she has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center Festival and its Great Performers series, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York Festival of Song, and Carnegie Hall, and was one of the New York City Opera’s leading sopranos. She has also appeared in opera and concert throughout Europe and Asia, as well as with American opera companies and orchestras in San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington, and sang at a nationally-broadcast 2002 White House performance. She has recorded for Bridge, Angel/EMI, Albany, and many other labels, and is on the voice faculties of the Mannes College of Music and Songfest in California.
The versatile JOHN MUSTO began his career as a highly-accomplished pianist, as which he may be heard on the Harmonia Mundi, Nonesuch, Milken Archive, Naxos, and EMI labels. He premiered both of his formidable piano concertos within months of each other in 2006, and subsequently recorded them for Bridge. As an acclaimed composer, he was a Finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, and has received two Emmys, two CINE Awards, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. He has triumphed with several recent operas – Volpone, Later the Same Evening, Bastianello, and The Inspector – and his music is widely recorded, including an acclaimed Music from Copland House disc of three major chamber works. He is Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Music Performance at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, and has taught and lectured at Brooklyn College, Juilliard, and the Manhattan School of Music.
About Performance Santa Fe
Performance Santa Fe has been bringing the very best of music, dance, and theater to iconic Santa Fe locations since 1937. Now in its 86th season, the organization upholds excellence in the performing arts and brings joy and enrichment to the community. Alongside its extensive performance season, the organization runs three dynamic, exciting, and inclusive educational programs for students in the community— Arts for Life, the Masterclass Series, and the Field Trip Series. PSF’s 2022-2023 season brings 27 performances to Santa Fe and celebrates the diverse possibilities of artistic expression. Learn more at PerformanceSantaFe.org. Performance Santa Fe is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
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