Maestro Jascha Heifetz becomes Professor Heifetz in these rare filmed master classes from the early 1960s Taken from his legendary sessions at USC Los Angeles this brilliant musician can be seen ...

Peter Rosen's uninspired docu on master violinist Jascha Heifetz jogs along fairly briskly in dealing with the gifted prodigy's early years: his first public performance at age 5 in Vilna, his ...

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 ...

Always ready to profer advice to musicians, George Bernard Shaw once told the young Jascha Heifetz: ”Nothing must be perfect in this world, or else the gods become jealous and destroy it.” Shaw went ...

One can hear the passion in Heifetz' violin playing, even if his stance was impassive. Jascha Heifetz, a child prodigy violin player, was taught to present himself passively to better focus attention ...

Jascha Heifetz, widely regarded as the supreme master of the violin in this century, died late Thursday at the age of 86. He entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 16 to be treated ...

Discover the violin virtuoso through Itzhak Perlman, students and archival performances. Discover the story of legendary musician Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), the first truly modern violin virtuoso.

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