More than a century after his public debut, the name Jascha Heifetz (1901 – 1987) continues to evoke awe and excitement among fellow musicians. In a performing career that spanned 65 years, he ...

Movie Review | 'God’s Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz' By Neil Genzlinger For its first half-hour “God’s Fiddler,” a documentary about the violinist Jascha Heifetz, one of the 20th century’s greatest ...

‘There are many violinists – then there is Heifetz.’ David Oistrakh’s now celebrated aphorism revealed the universal reverence felt towards Jascha Heifetz by the world’s string players. Heifetz was, ...

This “American Masters” film chronicles the life of the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), an artist known for his unyielding personal reserve on stage and off. Few people with whom he ...

In the new documentary “God’s Fiddler,” on the life of Jascha Heifetz, director Peter Rosen succeeds in creating the first film biography of the violin virtuoso. The film succeeds as a sort of ...

It's hard not to talk numbers when it comes to the new Jascha Heifetz collection. Last week Sony Classical released a 10-pound box of the famed violinist's recordings — 103 CDs in all, which the ...

Jascha Heifetz, well known Jewish violinist, was married to Mrs. Florence Vidor, a Christian, last Monday in New York City. Charles E. Kelby, former Supreme Court Justice performed the ceremony. Mr.

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3 Video: TWO STRANGERS Stars Perform 'If I Believed' on TODAY Filmed in Heifetz' native Vilnius, Lithuania; Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he studied with the influential Leopold Auer; and in his ...

Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. Jascha Heifetz was the first truly modern virtuoso, a man about whom Itzhak Perlman said, 'When I spoke with him, I can't believe, I'm ...