There was a time during my adolescence when [my father and I] didn't speak much. I was rebelling, doing all the things one does at 15. One day we were sitting in the library and the Pastorale Symphony came on the radio, and I started singing along. He had no idea that I'd been listening to classical music all this time, and he couldn't get over it. And we sang the whole thing together for the next forty minutes. We got back together from then on.
Alex Bernstein, son of Leonard Bernstein, is the founding chairman of The Leonard Bernstein Center For Learning and president of The Bernstein Family Foundation, a nonprofit that encourages learning by means of the arts.
He has been a professional actor, schoolteacher at the Packer-Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and a production associate at the ABC News Documentary Unit. Charles Webb hosts.