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 ...

In 1923, Heifetz gave concerts for Japanese quake victims, and to raise money for them. Jascha Heifetz traveled to Japan in 1923, weeks after the earthquake on September 1 that devastated Tokyo, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Video: Watch Lea Michele and CHESS Cast Perform on THE LATE SHOW Filmed in Heifetz' native Vilnius, Lithuania; Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he studied with the influential Leopold Auer; and in ...

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 ...