Famous Father Girl

Jamie Bernstein

• Editore: Harper
• Anno: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780062641373
• Argomento: Scienze sociali
• Categoria: Biografie nell'ambito delle scienze sociali

The oldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centenary of his birth— illuminating a man, a city, and an era that defined modern culture— in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir reminiscent of Alexandra Styron' s Reading My Father and Richard Ford' s Between Them. The composer of On the Town and West Side Story, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic, television star, humanitarian, friend of the powerful and influential, and inveterate partygoer Leonard Bernstein was a massive celebrity during one of the headiest periods of American cultural life, and perhaps the most talented musician in American history. To his eldest daughter, Jamie, he was all that and more; he was the man in the scratchy brown bathrobe that smelled of cigarettes, who sat late at night at the piano when he couldn' t sleep (he could never sleep). An incredible jokester, an incessant teacher, he taught her to love the world in all its beauty and complexity. In public and private, Lenny was larger than life. In Famous Father Girl, Bernstein mines the emotional depths of her childhood and invites us into her family' s private world. A fantastic set of characters populate the Bernsteins' lives, including: the Kennedys, Mike Nichols, John Lennon, Richard Avedon, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, and Betty (Lauren) Bacall. An intoxicating tale, Famous Father Girl is an intimate meditation on a deeply complex and sometimes troubled man and the beautiful music that was the soundtrack to his life. Deeply moving and often hilarious, Bernstein' s beautifully written memoir is great American story about one of the greatest Americans of the modern age.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• 1. The Osborne
• 2. The Vineyard and Redding
• 3. Park Avenue and Fairfield
• 4. The First Shadows
• 5. The Beatles Portal
• 6. Summer Games
• 7. A Little Teen in ’60s New York
• 8. School, Family, and the World
• 9. Stone Teen
• 10. One Toe Out of the Nest
• 11. Shifting Grounds
• 12. Not Really Grownup
• 13. Here Come the Terrors
• 14. Crawling from the Wreckage
• 15. The East-West Shuffle
• 16. Quiet-ish
• 17. Redding, Wecord, and What Was in Between
• 18. Forward Motion
• 19. An Arrival
• 20. A Departure
• 21. Life Goes On
• 22. A New Millennium
• 23. The Venezuela Connection
• 24. Lately
• Acknowledgments
• Index of Names
• About the Author
• Copyright
• About the Publisher