Music commentator Miles Hoffman remembers the remarkable Carnegie Hall debut of the violinist, considered by many to be one of the greatest in... 'Like Electricity': Jascha Heifetz Made His American ...

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 ...

The magnificent, wild and difficult genius of violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. A new documentary takes us in. Violinist Jascha Heifetz. (Library of Congress) The great violinst Jascha Heifetz was great ...

Audio will be available later today. With Veteran's Day coming Saturday, Performance Today explores a vivid chapter in the life of violinist Jascha Heifetz. Heifetz was born in Lithuania, but he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1926, superstar violinist Jascha Heifetz visited Israel and, famously, played in a stone quarry (my play on the subject, “A Walk With Mr Heifetz,” is shortly to open Off-Broadway). In 2017, I went ...

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.