Famous Father Girl

When a second-grade classmate dubbed Jamie Bernstein “famous father girl,” Leonard Bernstein was already a titanic figure, not only in music circles but in bastions of pampered and sophisticated society all over the world. Her deeply personal memories of growing up in his shadow — and his spotlight (she met The Beatles backstage!) — is the pulse that drives

the younger Bernstein’s 2018 account of growing up as a central player in The Lenny Show and the journey to find her own place in the world. “No one lives easily on the slopes of a volcano; Jamie Bernstein has been faithful to her unease,” wrote writer David Denby of the book. “Truth-telling, rather than dignity, is her goal.” Bernstein reads from Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Collected Works Bookstore (202 Galisteo St., journeysantafe .com). It’s free and open to the public. She also reads at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Harwood Museum (238 Ledoux St.) in Taos; $12-$15; 505-758-9826.

— T.D. Mobley-Martinez The appropriately named FLUX Quartet performs world premieres of three string quartets during its Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival concert on Friday, Aug. 2. Two are by Matthew Ricketts and Alex Stephenson, participants in the festival’s Young Composers String Quartet Project. The third is by Grammy Award-nominated composer Michael Gandolfi, whose recent for the Tanglewood Music Center was hailed as “stunning and spectacular” by the Boston Musical Intelligencer. The concert is at 6 p.m. at St. Francis Auditorium (107 W. Palace Ave.), with a pre-performance talk by the composers at 5 p.m. General admission tickets are $10 from 505-982-1890 and santafechambermusic.com.

— Mark Tiarks