Performance Today explores a vivid chapter in the life of violinist Jascha Heifetz. During WWII, he played more than 300 USO shows, sometimes near the front, in perilous surroundings. Here's a ...

Jascha Heifetz, the Russian-born virtuoso who was celebrated as one of the greatest violinists in history, has died in Los Angeles at 86. A spokesman for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said Mr. Heifet… ...

Scott talks to Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about the career of violinist Jascha Heifetz. Naxos Records is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with a series ...

The new 103-CD Jascha Heifetz box set presents a vast trove of fantastic fiddling over a seven-decade career, from his first recording session as a teenager to his final recital in 1972.

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 ...

Jascha Heifetz traveled to Japan in 1923, weeks after the earthquake on September 1 that devastated Tokyo, Yokohama and the Kanto region, with casualties near 143,000.

Jascha Heifetz presents a frustrating challenge to would-be biographers. Although one of the most widely celebrated and recorded musicians of the 20th century, he was also intensely private, not ...

Jascha Heifetz News from United Press International.On Feb. 2, 1933, two days after becoming chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered dissolution of the Parliament.

As a teenager in the 1960s, violinist Pierre Amoyal was a student of Jascha Heifetz. So the Jascha Heifetz Society could claim a direct connection with Heifetz’s legacy by having Amoyal close ...

That Jascha Heifetz could achieve technical miracles without the slightest hint of physical effort made every other violinist stand in awe of him, a reverence […] ...