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Performance Today®

with host Fred Child

Jamie Bernstein: "It was a rough year..."

Leonard Bernstein Thomas R. Seiler/Deutsche Grammophon
2min : Jamie Bernstein difficult year

In so many ways, Leonard Bernstein was extraordinary. Talented, charismatic and handsome to boot, it was if a magic wand tapped his head at birth. His daughter Jamie Bernstein in her new book Famous Father Girl describes what the public didn't see: the doubt and guilt that nagged his conscience AND fueled his music.

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