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* Jennie Resnick Bernstein; Mother of Conductor Leonard Bernstein

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Jennie Resnick Bernstein, 94, mother of the late composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein who contributed lyrics to his final work. Mrs. Bernstein’s lyrics were for her son’s “Arias and Barcarolles,” which won a Grammy in 1991 for best contemporary composition. Her son died in 1990, and her husband, Samuel Bernstein, died in 1969. On Tuesday in Boston of a stroke.

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