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Late Night with Leonard Bernstein

August 27, 2018, 8:00 pm

Late Night with Leonard Bernstein is a portrait of the composer written and hosted by his daughter, Jamie, and co-written by a protégé, George Steel. It features music dear to the Maestro and stories providing a very personal view of this great American icon. It was recorded on the stage of Ravinia’s Martin Theater the evening of July 27, 2018.

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Meet the Host

Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

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