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Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz , 1901-87, Russian-American violinist, b. Vilna. He studied first with his father and in 1910 became a pupil of Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, giving his first public concert the next year. After great success as a child prodigy in Europe, he immigrated to the United... Read more
Leopold Auer
Leopold Auer , 1845-1930, Hungarian violinist and teacher, studied at the conservatories of Budapest and Vienna and with Joseph Joachim in Hanover. He taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1868-1917. Among his pupils were Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, and Nathan Milstein. In 1918 he came to the... Read more

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Jascha Heifetz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jascha Heifetz Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) was widely acknowledged...inspired musical interpretations, Jascha Heifetz attracted audiences in numbers rarely...silken bow." A Prodigy at Three Jascha Heifetz was born in the Lithuanian capital... Read more
Leopold Auer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of the world's most renowned violinists, including Jascha Heifetz. Auer's life in Russia extended from the rule of the...Elman entered the Conservatory. Later in that decade, Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein became beneficiaries of his teaching... Read more

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Heifetz, Jascha
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Heifetz, Jascha ( b Vilna, Lithuania, 1899; d Los Angeles, 1987). Russ.-born violinist (Amer. cit. 1925). Lessons at 3 from father, public dé...played Tchaikovsky conc. with Berlin PO under Nikisch, 1912, in Vienna under Safonov, and in Leipzig. Family went to USA 1917, where Heifetz made début in ... Read more

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The best hot dogs, the best beluga: Jascha Heifetz, RIP. (obituary)
Magazine article from: National Review; 1/22/1988; ; 549 words ; The Best Hot Dogs, the Best Beluga: Jascha Heifetz, RIP ON DECEMBER 10, 1987, Jascha Heifetz died at the age of 86. Newspapers reported...wishes for bigger and better adventures. Jascha Heifetz. He gave me--he gave us all--bigger and better... Read more
Schuyler Chapin was many things in life: Jascha Heifetz's tour manager, head of the Metropolitan Opera, dean of the Columbia School of the Arts, and so on.(The Week)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/6/2009; 141 words ; Schuyler Chapin was many things in life: Jascha Heifetz's tour manager, head of the Metropolitan Opera, dean of the Columbia School of the Arts, and so on. He was also a friend of WFB... Read more
High voltage violin.(TOURISM)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 3/9/2009; ; 81 words ; ...Schiff, described by The New York Times as an instrumentalist of luscious high voltage Heifetz, comparing her to her teacher, the legendary Jascha Heifetz. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. March 23 at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center... Read more
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Scottish Fantasy. Akiko Suwanai, violin; Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Philips 454 180-2.(Review)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 11/1/1998; ; 215 words ; ...of the violinist she claims to admire most, Jascha Heifetz. Still, in these works it is Heifetz (RCA) that I would turn to first, with his...though, it is not so detailed as RCA's sound for Heifetz, recorded nearly 40 years ago! With the classic... Read more
Koppel's drug bust. (legalization of drugs) (column)
Magazine article from: National Review; 10/28/1988; ; 694 words ; ...Barnum & Bailey complex. He is so anxious to have everything going in three tents, you are quite likely to miss Jascha Heifetz off in a corner playing a Bach Suite. On top of everything else-13 panelists, a studio audience of two hundred guests... Read more
Leonard Pennario.(Passages)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 10/1/2008; 130 words ; ...appeared with well-known orchestras and conductors. Beginning in the 1960s, he also played in trios with the violinist Jascha Heifetz and the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Pennario made more than 60 recordings, of music by composers as diverse as Bela... Read more
Steinway enters Hall of Fame. (Association News).(Steinway and Sons)(American Classical Music Hall of Fame)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 8/1/2003; 94 words ; ...to the growth, development and appreciation of classical music. Steinway joins such other inductees as Bela Bartok, Jascha Heifetz, Van Cliburn, Leonard Bernstein and the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Read more
Great masters of the violin: from Corelli and Vivaldi to Stern, Zukerman, and Perlman.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/15/1984; ; 700+ words ; ...never chilling perfectionist, Jascha Heifetz, involved more than connoisseurship: The Heifetz family as well as my own...After a few anxious weks, the Heifetz family and mine were permitted...face of common problems. Jascha, who played the piano remarkably...rudiments of the violin by ... Read more
Playing to all in harmony; a look back ... UN Day concerts.
Magazine article from: UN Chronicle; 3/1/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...diplomats who have led orchestras UN podium. The great cellist-conductor Pablo Casals, violinists David Oistrakh and Jascha Heifetz, pianists Claudio Arrau and Alicia de Larrocha, singers Renata Tebaldi, Marian Anderson and Dame Joan Sutherland have... Read more
European copyright expirations open potential floodgates. (Apple Seeds).(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Sing Out!; 6/22/2003; ; 504 words ; ...decades has already led to voluminous European reissues of such historically important artists as the great violinist Jascha Heifetz and the legendary jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Although distribution will theoretically be limited to Europe, record... Read more