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's $6 million violin, which has been played publicly only once or twice a year in the past decade, will be played regularly for the next three years by San Francisco Symphony ...
On Veterans Day, we told the story of legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz playing for American troops during WWII. Fred Child reads an e-mail from a PT listener who heard Heifetz during the war years.
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In this excerpt from American Masters — Jascha Heifetz: God’s Fiddler (2015), Itzhak Perlman reminisces about his first encounter as a teenager with the world-famous violinist Jascha Heifetz. Perlman ...
It's been nearly seven years since San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik began performing on the 1742 Guarneri del Gesù violin, known as the "David," that once belonged to Jascha ...
The world premiere of A Walk With Mr. Heifetz by Time Magazine journalist James Inverne is set to open February 20 after beginning previews at Cherry Lane Theatre January 31. The new play imagines the ...
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 ...