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String Quartet, along with cellist Andres
Diaz, violinist Ian Swenson, baritone
Chris Trakas and pianist James Tocco.
Tocco also serves as the series' artistic
director.
Concert-goers can learn more about
Ives on Friday, June 18, ar the first of
two daytime lecture/concert experiences
titled "Beyond the Program Notes,"
both held at Temple Beth El.
The June 18 event begins at 10 a.m.
with a session featuring writer/radio per-
sonality Jamie Bernstein, daughter of
musical polymath Leonard Bernstein.
The Detroit Chamber Winds and
Strings, with Bernstein as narrator, will
perform William Walton's Facade, a
suite of poems by eccentric British liter-
ary figure Edith Sitwell (1887-1964).
The morning program will include a
discussion of humor in music, as well as
a question-and-answer session with
Bernstein.
Following lunch, the program contin-
ues with a 1 p.m. performance of several

Ives works and a discussion of the com-
poser's music and life.
A second "Beyond the Program
Notes," scheduled for Friday, June 25,
begins with a 10 a.m. session examining
Felix Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings,

Op. 20. The 1 p.m. session features
Martin Goldsmith, classical music direc-
tor for XM Satellite Radio, discussing
"Whither Classical Radio?"
Goldsmith, a Peabody Award-win-
ning broadcaster, is the author of The



"

The Jerusalem-based Ariel String Quartet will perform the music of composer
Charles Ives.

First Daughter

Jamie Bernstein narrates — and fields questions
at the 11th annual Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.

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ere's a sobering thought for the
baby-boom generation: Jamie
Bernstein, daughter of classical
music hero Leonard Bernstein, is herself
old enough to be a member of AARP.
With more than 50 years as first
daughter, Bernstein is used to questions
about her illustrious father. And she
expects to hear a lot more of them
when she appears Friday, June 18, at
the 2004 Great Lakes Chamber Music
Festival, which runs from June 12-27 at
various sites in southeast Michigan.
Bernstein, writer, radio personality
and the mother of two teenagers, will
be heard as narrator of William
Walton's quirky song cycle Facade.
She'll perform the work at two of the
festival's eight venues — first appearing
at 10 a.m. for the "Beyond the Program
Notes" lecture/concert event at Temple
Beth El in Bloomfield Township and
then traveling to Ann Arbor's
Kerrytown Concert House for an 8
p.m. concert.
A native New Yorker, Bernstein grad-
uated from the city's Brierly School and

went on to Harvard University,
followed by writing courses at
Columbia University. She still
lives in the city's Chelsea sec-
tion "next to a hospital, police
station and fire station.
Fortunately we have very thick
windows," she said in a recent
interview.
In the tradition of her
father's popular Young Peoples'
Concerts, which introduced
millions to the excitement of
music, Bernstein co-wrote
What Makes Music Dance, bet-
ter known as The Bernstein
Beat.
"In a rare burst of modesty,
Leonard Bernstein with his wife Felicia and two
my father never programmed
eldest children, Jamie, left, and. Alexander:
his own works in any of the
He was "the most all-around musician there
Young Peoples' Concerts,"
was, says Jamie Bernstein.
Bernstein said. "So I got
together with Michael Barrett,
"There's nothing like hearing a room-
one of my father's most talented stu-
ful of teenagers shout out 'mambo!'
dents, to do this piece that includes a
from the dance scene in West Side
lot of his most rhythmic stuff"
Story," she said. "The show is all about
Bernstein has narrated the work
rhythm.
They don't think they will like
throughout the United States and as far
it — but they do. It leaves everybody
a field as Havana and Beijing. Not yet
bouncing in the aisles."
in Detroit," she said.

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