George Hanson pretty much pegged it last year when he announced plans to celebrated famed conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein during the 2018 Tucson Desert Song Festival.
The world would be watching, the festival director and former Tucson Symphony Orchestra conductor predicted, and indeed they seem to be starting to do just that.
In the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, in a story looking at all of the celebrations nationwide to commemorate the 100th year of Bernstein's birth, Tucson earned a mention alongside the Atlanta Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.
The article, "From Ravinia to Vienna and beyond, the world will note Leonard Bernstein's centennial with 'thousands of concerts'," quoted Bernstein's daughter Jamie: “ ‘Leonard Bernstein at 100’ will explore my father’s legacy from every angle. And that’s a lot of angles.”
Jamie Bernstein is among the guests expected to appear during the 2018 Tucson Desert Song Festival Jan. 17 thorugh Feb. 4.
In the early 1980s Hanson worked with Leonard Bernstein and went on to become his assistant.
