Phoenix Symphony Performs Tribute to
Legendary Leonard Bernstein

Jamie Bernstein Returns to Phoenix to Host Pops
Concerts Featuring her Father's Broadway Hits

PHOENIX (October 19, 2007) - Special guest Jamie Bernstein, daughter of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, returns to Phoenix to host a program of her father's blockbuster music from Broadway November 9-11. Resident Conductor Lawrence Golan leads The Phoenix Symphony in a concert featuring music from Bernstein's hit Broadway musicals such as On the Town and West Side Story. Both Friday and Saturday evening concerts begin at 8 p.m., and a Sunday matinee begins at 2 p.m. All concerts take place at Symphony Hall in downtown Phoenix. A special presentation of "Bernstein on Broadway" will also take place at 7:30 p.m. on November 8 at the Maricopa County Events Center. The Phoenix Symphony Pops Series is sponsored by APS.

Celebrated the world over for his conducting, compositional, and educational skills, Leonard Bernstein is regarded as one of America's finest musicians. While he made numerous contributions for the concert hall, he wrote several works for Broadway that garner similar popularity and fame. The weekend of concerts featuring Bernstein's music on Broadway begins with the famous Overture to Candide and includes orchestral works such as Dance Episodes from On the Town and the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Gifted vocal performers directly from Broadway perform hit songs from Candide, On the Town, West Side Story, and Wonderful Town.

Host Jamie Bernstein narrates the concerts sharing memories of her father and his enduring musical legacy. As a writer, narrator, and broadcaster, Ms. Bernstein has devoted her life to sharing her love of music with others. Traveling the globe she narrated concerts of her father's music as well as the music of Aaron Copland. She has produced and hosted radio programs in the United States and Great Britain as well as hosted the live national radio broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic. In addition, Jamie has published articles and poetry that have appeared in magazines such as Symphony and DoubleTake.

Tickets to hear "Bernstein on Broadway" with special guest Jamie Bernstein are $25, $35, $45, $54, $64, and $74, and can be purchased by calling the Phoenix Symphony Box Office at 602.495.1999 or by visiting the Symphony's website at www.phoenixsymphony.org.

This weekend of concerts is the second concert in the Pops Series during The Phoenix Symphony's 2007-08 Season. Future concerts in this series include "Christmas Pops Celebration" on November 29-December 2, "Marvin Hamlisch" on January 4-6, "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" on February 22-24, "The Piano Men: Music of Elton John and Billy Joel" on March 28-30, and "Big Screen Legends Featuring the Music of John Williams" on May 9-10.

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About Jamie Bernstein: Jamie Bernstein is a narrator, writer and broadcaster who has transformed a lifetime of loving music into a career of sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with others. Ms. Bernstein grew up in an atmosphere bursting with music, theatre and literature. Her father, composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, together with her mother, the pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre, and their legions of friends in the arts, created an ebullient household that turned Jamie into a cultural enthusiast. Replicating her father's lifelong compulsion to share and teach, Jamie has devised several ways of communicating her own excitement about classical music. In addition to "The Bernstein Beat," a family concert about her father modeled after his own groundbreaking Young People's Concerts, Jamie has also written and narrated concerts about Mozart and Aaron Copland, among others. She is a frequent speaker on musical topics, including in-depth discussions of her father's works. And in her role as a broadcaster, Jamie has produced and hosted numerous shows for radio stations in the United States and Great Britain. In addition to hosting several seasons of the New York Philharmonic's live national radio broadcasts, Jamie has presented several series for New York's classical station, 96.3 FM WQXR, including annual live broadcasts from Tanglewood. Jamie writes articles and poetry, which have appeared in national publications.

About Resident Conductor Lawrence Golan: Lawrence Golan joined the conducting staff of The Phoenix Symphony as Resident Conductor at the start of the 2006-07 season. In this role, he leads concerts in each of the symphony's major series - including Classics, Pops, and Family presentations. In conjunction with his role as Resident Conductor of The Phoenix Symphony, Mr. Golan leads the Phoenix Youth Symphony, helping to prepare these young musicians for future careers in music. He is also Music Director of Boulder Baroque and the Boulder Bach Festival in Colorado, and of the Portland Ballet Company in Maine. In addition, he continues his work as Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music, where he teaches graduate conducting and leads the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre.

About The Phoenix Symphony: Celebrating its 60th Anniversary Season, The Phoenix Symphony has been proudly serving the citizens of the Phoenix metropolitan area and Arizona since 1947. What began as an occasional group of musicians performing a handful of concerts each year (in a city of fewer than 100,000 people) today serves more than 300,000 people annually, with 275 concerts and presentations throughout the greater Phoenix area and beyond.

Under the artistic leadership of Michael Christie as the Virginia G. Piper Music Director and administrative leadership of President Maryellen H. Gleason, the orchestra is overseen by the non-profit Phoenix Symphony Association under Board Chairman Gerald W. Murphy.

The 76-member Phoenix Symphony presents an annual season from September through the beginning of June, featuring full-length classical and pops concerts at Sym­phony Hall in downtown Phoenix, in Scottsdale, in Prescott, and throughout central Arizona. The Symphony performs for more than 50,000 students and children, helping to introduce music to new generations through a variety of education and youth-engagement programs.

BERNSTEIN ON BROADWAY
Pops Concert No. 2

November 9 - Friday evening at 8:00 p.m.
November 10 - Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m.
November 11 - Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m.
at Symphony Hall

THE PHOENIX SYMPHONY
Lawrence Golan, conductor
with special guest Jamie Bernstein

Jamie Bernstein returns to Phoenix to host this
program of her father's blockbuster music from
Broadway. Gifted performers direct from the
"Great White Way" perform hit songs from West
Side Story, Candide, On the Town, and more.

The Phoenix Symphony Pops series is sponsored by APS,

TICKETS: $25, $35, $45, $54, $64, $74