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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

JULY 23 – AUGUST 5, 2018 | RAVINIA MAGAZINE

41

2018

Ravinia

artists

By Graham Meyer