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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="ياشا هيفتس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ياشا هيفتس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7_%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%B2" title="یاشا هایفتز – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="یاشا هایفتز" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%88%D0%B0_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%86" title="Яша Хейфец – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Яша Хейфец" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%88%D0%B0_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%86" title="Яша Хайфец – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Яша Хайфец" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7_%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%B2" title="یاشا هایفتز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="یاشا هایفتز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EC%83%A4_%ED%95%98%EC%9D%B4%ED%8E%98%EC%B8%A0" title="야샤 하이페츠 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="야샤 하이페츠" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%A1%D5%B7%D5%A1_%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B5%D6%86%D5%A5%D6%81" title="Յաշա Հայֆեց – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Յաշա Հայֆեց" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%94_%D7%97%D7%A4%D7%A5" title="יאשה חפץ – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="יאשה חפץ" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%A8%E1%83%90_%E1%83%AE%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%94%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98" title="იაშა ხეფეცი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="იაშა ხეფეცი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%88%D0%B0_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%86" title="Яша Хейфец – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Яша Хейфец" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%C5%A1a_Heifecs" title="Jaša Heifecs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Jaša Heifecs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%C5%A1a_Heifecas" title="Jaša Heifecas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Jaša Heifecas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasha_Heifetz" title="Jasha Heifetz – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Jasha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B0_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%98%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%86" title="Јаша Хајфец – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Јаша Хајфец" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%A8%E1%83%90_%E1%83%AE%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%94%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98" title="იაშა ხეფეცი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="იაშა ხეფეცი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="ياشا هيفتس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ياشا هيفتس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%84" title="ヤッシャ・ハイフェッツ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヤッシャ・ハイフェッツ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Jascha Heifetz" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%86,_%D0%AF%D1%88%D0%B0" title="Хейфец, Яша – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Хейфец, Яша" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Jascha Heifetz</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Heifetz_LOC_38890u.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Heifetz_LOC_38890u.jpg/220px-Heifetz_LOC_38890u.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="367" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Heifetz_LOC_38890u.jpg/330px-Heifetz_LOC_38890u.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Heifetz_LOC_38890u.jpg/440px-Heifetz_LOC_38890u.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2442" data-file-height="4070" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Heifetz in 1920s</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1901-02-02</span>)</span>February 2, 1901<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> (now Lithuania)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 10, 1987<span style="display:none">(1987-12-10)</span> (aged 86)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, California, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Violin" title="Violin">Violinist</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Florence_Vidor" title="Florence Vidor">Florence Vidor</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="August 1928">1928</span>; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="December 1945">1945</span>)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Frances Spiegelberg</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="January 1947">1947</span>; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="January 1963">1963</span>)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jaschaheifetz.com">Official website</a></span></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q243472#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Jascha Heifetz</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>; February 2 [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimesobit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimesobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Born in <a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a>, he was soon recognized as a <a href="/wiki/Child_prodigy" title="Child prodigy">child prodigy</a> and was trained in the Russian classical violin style in <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a>. Accompanying his parents to escape the violence of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a>, he moved to the United States as a teenager, where his <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> debut was rapturously received. <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Kreisler" title="Fritz Kreisler">Fritz Kreisler</a>, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."<sup id="cite_ref-TheSupreme_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheSupreme-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the age of 18, Heifetz was the highest-paid violinist in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-Timnick_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timnick-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had a long and successful concert career, including wartime service with the <a href="/wiki/United_Service_Organizations" title="United Service Organizations">United Service Organizations</a> (USO).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After an injury to his right (bowing) arm in 1972, he switched his focus to teaching.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heifetz was born into a <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian Jews">Lithuanian-Jewish</a> family in <a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a> (which was then part of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>, and is currently the capital of <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His father, Reuven Heifetz, was a local violin teacher and served as the concertmaster of the Vilnius Theatre Orchestra for one season before the theatre closed down. While Jascha was an infant, his father did a series of tests, observing how his son responded to his violin playing. This convinced him that Jascha had great potential, and before Jascha was two years old, his father bought him a small violin, and taught him bowing and simple fingering.<sup id="cite_ref-Kahn1969_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kahn1969-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1906, at the age of five, Heifetz entered the local music school in Vilna where he studied with Ilya Malkin. Recognized as a <a href="/wiki/Child_prodigy" title="Child prodigy">child prodigy</a>, he made his public debut at seven, in Kovno (now <a href="/wiki/Kaunas" title="Kaunas">Kaunas</a>, Lithuania) playing the <a href="/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Mendelssohn</a> <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)" title="Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)">Violin Concerto</a>. In 1910, he entered the violin class of Ionnes Nalbandian at the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Conservatory" title="Saint Petersburg Conservatory">Saint Petersburg Conservatory</a> and later studied under <a href="/wiki/Leopold_Auer" title="Leopold Auer">Leopold Auer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He played in Germany and Scandinavia, and met <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Kreisler" title="Fritz Kreisler">Fritz Kreisler</a> for the first time in a Berlin private house, in a "private press matinee on May 20, 1912. The home was that of Arthur Abell, the pre-eminent Berlin music critic for the American magazine, <i>Musical Courier</i>. Among other noted violinists in attendance was Fritz Kreisler. After the 12-year-old Heifetz performed the Mendelssohn violin concerto, Abell reported that Kreisler said to all present, 'We may as well break our fiddles across our knees.'"<sup id="cite_ref-About_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heifetz visited much of Europe while still in his teens. In April 1911, he performed in an outdoor concert in St. Petersburg before 25,000 spectators; there was such a reaction that police officers needed to protect the young violinist after the concert. In 1914, he performed with the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Philharmonic" title="Berlin Philharmonic">Berlin Philharmonic</a> conducted by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Nikisch" title="Arthur Nikisch">Arthur Nikisch</a>. The conductor said he had never heard such an excellent violinist.<sup id="cite_ref-TheSupreme_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheSupreme-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jascha_Heifetz_in_1917.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Jascha_Heifetz_in_1917.jpg/220px-Jascha_Heifetz_in_1917.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="326" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Jascha_Heifetz_in_1917.jpg/330px-Jascha_Heifetz_in_1917.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Jascha_Heifetz_in_1917.jpg/440px-Jascha_Heifetz_in_1917.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3296" data-file-height="4891" /></a><figcaption>In 1917</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 230px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may hear Jascha Heifetz performing <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Tchaikovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyotr Tchaikovsky">Pyotr Tchaikovsky</a>'s <i>Violin Concerto in D Major Opus 35</i> with Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Barbirolli" title="John Barbirolli">John Barbirolli</a> conducting the <a href="/wiki/London_Philharmonic" class="mw-redirect" title="London Philharmonic">London Philharmonic</a> in 1937 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/TCHAIKOVSKYViolinConcerto-Heifetz-NEWTRANSFER/01.I.AllegroModerato.mp3"><b>Here</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>To avoid the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a>, Heifetz and his family left Russia in 1917, traveling by rail to the Russian far east and then by ship to the United States, arriving in San Francisco. On October 27, 1917, Heifetz played for the first time in the United States, at <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> in New York City, and became an immediate sensation.<sup id="cite_ref-Kahn1969p66_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kahn1969p66-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fellow violinist <a href="/wiki/Mischa_Elman" title="Mischa Elman">Mischa Elman</a> in the audience asked "Do you think it's hot in here?", whereupon the pianist <a href="/wiki/Leopold_Godowsky" title="Leopold Godowsky">Leopold Godowsky</a>, in the next seat, replied, "Not for pianists."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1917, Heifetz was elected an honorary member of <a href="/wiki/Phi_Mu_Alpha_Sinfonia" title="Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia">Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia</a>, the national fraternity for men in music, by the fraternity's Alpha chapter at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. At 16, he was perhaps the youngest person ever elected to membership in the organization. Heifetz remained in the country and became a United States citizen in 1925. A story circulates that tells of an interaction with one of the <a href="/wiki/Marx_Brothers" title="Marx Brothers">Marx Brothers</a>: when he told the brother (usually <a href="/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx">Groucho</a> or <a href="/wiki/Harpo_Marx" title="Harpo Marx">Harpo</a>) that he had been earning his living as a musician since the age of seven, he received the reply, "Before that, I suppose, you were just a bum."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 17, 1926, Heifetz performed at <a href="/wiki/Ein_Harod" title="Ein Harod">Ein Harod</a>, then the center of <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a>’s <a href="/wiki/Kibbutz" title="Kibbutz">kibbutz</a> movement. <sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 1945 Heifetz played with his son for <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Konev" title="Ivan Konev">Ivan Konev</a> and <a href="/wiki/Omar_Bradley" title="Omar Bradley">Omar Bradley</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kassel" title="Kassel">Kassel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1954, Heifetz began working with pianist Brooks Smith, who was Heifetz's accompanist for many years until he changed to <a href="/wiki/Ayke_Agus" title="Ayke Agus">Ayke Agus</a> as his accompanist in retirement.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also accompanied in concert for more than 20 years by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Emanuel_Bay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emanuel Bay (page does not exist)">Emanuel Bay</a>, another immigrant from Russia and a personal friend.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Heifetz's musicianship was such that he would demonstrate to his accompanist how he wanted passages to sound on the piano, and would even suggest which fingerings to use.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the seasons of 1955–56, Heifetz announced that he would sharply curtail his concert activity, saying "I have been playing for a very long time." In 1958, he tripped in his kitchen and fractured his right hip, resulting in hospitalization at <a href="/wiki/Cedars-Sinai_Medical_Center" title="Cedars-Sinai Medical Center">Cedars of Lebanon Hospital</a> and a near fatal staphylococcus infection. He was invited to play Beethoven at the United Nations General Assembly, and entered leaning on a cane. By 1967, Heifetz had considerably curtailed his concert performances.<sup id="cite_ref-Kahn1969p68_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kahn1969p68-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Technique_and_timbre">Technique and timbre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Technique and timbre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heifetz was "regarded as the greatest violin virtuoso since <a href="/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Paganini" title="Niccolò Paganini">Paganini</a>", wrote Lois Timnick of the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Timnick_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timnick-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "He set all standards for 20th-century violin playing...everything about him conspired to create a sense of awe", wrote music critic <a href="/wiki/Harold_Schonberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Harold Schonberg">Harold Schonberg</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "The goals he set still remain, and for violinists today it's rather depressing that they may never really be attained again", wrote violinist <a href="/wiki/Itzhak_Perlman" title="Itzhak Perlman">Itzhak Perlman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Virgil_Thomson" title="Virgil Thomson">Virgil Thomson</a> described Heifetz as being the master of playing "silk underwear music", a characterization he did not intend as a compliment. Other critics argue that he infused his playing with feeling and reverence for the composer's intentions. His style of playing was highly influential in defining the way modern violinists approached the instrument. His use of rapid <a href="/wiki/Vibrato" title="Vibrato">vibrato</a>, emotionally charged <a href="/wiki/Portamento" title="Portamento">portamento</a>, fast tempi, and superb bow control coalesced to create a highly distinctive sound that makes Heifetz's playing instantly recognizable to aficionados. Itzhak Perlman, who himself is known for his rich warm tone and expressive use of portamento, described Heifetz's tone as like "a tornado" because of its emotional intensity. Perlman said that Heifetz preferred to record relatively close to the microphone—and as a result, one would perceive a somewhat different tone quality when listening to Heifetz during a concert hall performance.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heifetz was very particular about his choice of strings. He used a silver-wound Tricolore <a href="/wiki/Catgut" title="Catgut">gut</a> G string, plain unvarnished gut D and A strings, and a Goldbrokat medium steel E string, and employed clear Hill-brand <a href="/wiki/Rosin" title="Rosin">rosin</a> sparingly. Heifetz believed that playing on gut strings was important in rendering an individual sound.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_recordings">Early recordings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heifetz made his first recordings in Russia during 1910–11, while still a student of Leopold Auer. The existence of these recordings was not generally known until after Heifetz's death, when several sides, including <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Schubert" title="François Schubert">François Schubert's</a> <i>L'Abeille</i>, were reissued on an <a href="/wiki/LP_album" class="mw-redirect" title="LP album">LP</a> included as a supplement to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Strad" title="The Strad">The Strad</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (August 2024)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On November 9, 1917, shortly after his Carnegie Hall debut, Heifetz made his first recordings for the <a href="/wiki/Victor_Talking_Machine_Company" title="Victor Talking Machine Company">Victor Talking Machine Company</a>/<a href="/wiki/RCA_Victor_Red_Seal" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor Red Seal">RCA Victor</a> where he remained for most of the rest of his career. On October 28, 1927, Heifetz was the starring act at the grand opening of <a href="/wiki/Tucson,_Arizona" title="Tucson, Arizona">Tucson, Arizona</a>'s now-historic Temple of Music and Art.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For several years, in the 1930s, Heifetz recorded primarily for <a href="/wiki/EMI_Records" title="EMI Records">HMV/EMI</a> in the UK because RCA Victor cut back on expensive classical recording sessions during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>; these HMV discs were issued in the United States by RCA Victor. Heifetz often enjoyed playing chamber music. Various critics have blamed his limited success in chamber ensembles to the fact that his artistic personality tended to overwhelm his colleagues. Collaborations include his 1941 recordings of <a href="/wiki/Piano_trio" title="Piano trio">piano trios</a> by Beethoven, Schubert, and <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Brahms" title="Johannes Brahms">Brahms</a> with cellist <a href="/wiki/Emanuel_Feuermann" title="Emanuel Feuermann">Emanuel Feuermann</a> and pianist <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Rubinstein" title="Arthur Rubinstein">Arthur Rubinstein</a> as well as a later collaboration with Rubinstein and cellist <a href="/wiki/Gregor_Piatigorsky" title="Gregor Piatigorsky">Gregor Piatigorsky</a>, with whom he recorded trios by <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Ravel" title="Maurice Ravel">Maurice Ravel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky" title="Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky">Tchaikovsky</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Felix Mendelssohn</a>. Both formations were sometimes referred to as the <i>Million Dollar Trio</i>. Heifetz also recorded some string quintets with violinist <a href="/wiki/Israel_Baker" title="Israel Baker">Israel Baker</a>, violists <a href="/wiki/William_Primrose" title="William Primrose">William Primrose</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Majewski" title="Virginia Majewski">Virginia Majewski</a>, and Piatigorsky.<sup id="cite_ref-About_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heifetz recorded the Beethoven <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Beethoven)" title="Violin Concerto (Beethoven)">Violin Concerto</a> in 1940 with the <a href="/wiki/NBC_Symphony_Orchestra" title="NBC Symphony Orchestra">NBC Symphony Orchestra</a> conducted by <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini" title="Arturo Toscanini">Arturo Toscanini</a>, and again in stereo in 1955 with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Boston Symphony Orchestra">Boston Symphony Orchestra</a> conducted by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Munch_(conductor)" title="Charles Munch (conductor)">Charles Munch</a>. A live performance of an NBC radio broadcast from April 9, 1944, of Heifetz playing the Mendelssohn <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Mendelssohn)" title="Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)">Violin Concerto</a> with Toscanini and the NBC Symphony has also been released, unofficially.<sup id="cite_ref-About_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He performed and recorded <a href="/wiki/Erich_Wolfgang_Korngold" title="Erich Wolfgang Korngold">Erich Wolfgang Korngold's</a> <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Korngold)" title="Violin Concerto (Korngold)">Violin Concerto</a> at a time when Korngold's scoring of films for <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> prompted many classical musicians to develop the opinion Korngold was not a "serious" composer and to avoid his music in order to avoid being associated with him.<sup id="cite_ref-About_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_War_II">World War II</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the war, Heifetz commissioned a number of pieces, including the <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Walton)" title="Violin Concerto (Walton)">Violin Concerto</a> by <a href="/wiki/William_Walton" title="William Walton">William Walton</a>. He also arranged a number of pieces, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Hora_staccato" title="Hora staccato">Hora Staccato</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Grigora%C8%99_Dinicu" title="Grigoraș Dinicu">Grigoraș Dinicu</a>, a Romanian whom Heifetz is rumoured to have called the greatest violinist he had ever heard. Heifetz also played and composed for the piano.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He performed mess hall jazz for soldiers at Allied camps across Europe during the Second World War, and under the alias Jim Hoyl he wrote a hit song, "When You Make Love to Me (Don't Make Believe)", which was sung by <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Decca_recordings">Decca recordings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Decca recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jascha_Heifetz_-_Carnegie_Hall_1947_(04)_wmplayer_2013-04-16.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Jascha_Heifetz_-_Carnegie_Hall_1947_%2804%29_wmplayer_2013-04-16.jpg/220px-Jascha_Heifetz_-_Carnegie_Hall_1947_%2804%29_wmplayer_2013-04-16.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Jascha_Heifetz_-_Carnegie_Hall_1947_%2804%29_wmplayer_2013-04-16.jpg/330px-Jascha_Heifetz_-_Carnegie_Hall_1947_%2804%29_wmplayer_2013-04-16.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Jascha_Heifetz_-_Carnegie_Hall_1947_%2804%29_wmplayer_2013-04-16.jpg/440px-Jascha_Heifetz_-_Carnegie_Hall_1947_%2804%29_wmplayer_2013-04-16.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Heifetz at <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> in 1947</figcaption></figure> <p>From 1944 to 1946, largely as a result of the <a href="/wiki/American_Federation_of_Musicians" title="American Federation of Musicians">American Federation of Musicians</a> recording ban (which began in 1942), Heifetz recorded with American Decca because the company settled with the union in 1943, well before RCA Victor resolved their dispute with the musicians. He recorded primarily short pieces, including his own arrangements of music by <a href="/wiki/George_Gershwin" title="George Gershwin">George Gershwin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Foster" title="Stephen Foster">Stephen Foster</a>; these were pieces he often played as encores in his recitals. He was accompanied on the piano by Emanuel Bay or Milton Kaye. Among the more uncommon discs featured one of Decca's popular artists, <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>, in the "Lullaby" from <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Godard" title="Benjamin Godard">Benjamin Godard's</a> opera <i><a href="/wiki/Jocelyn_(opera)" title="Jocelyn (opera)">Jocelyn</a></i> and <i>Where My Caravan Has Rested</i> (arranged by Heifetz and Crosby) by <a href="/wiki/Hermann_L%C3%B6hr" title="Hermann Löhr">Hermann Löhr</a> (1871–1943); Decca's studio orchestra was conducted by <a href="/wiki/Victor_Young" title="Victor Young">Victor Young</a> on July 27, 1946, session. Heifetz soon returned to RCA Victor, where he continued to make recordings until the early 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_recordings">Later recordings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Later recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Returning to RCA Victor in 1946, Heifetz continued to record extensively for the company, including solo, chamber, and concerto recordings, primarily with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Boston Symphony Orchestra">Boston Symphony Orchestra</a> under <a href="/wiki/Charles_Munch_(conductor)" title="Charles Munch (conductor)">Charles Munch</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Chicago Symphony Orchestra">Chicago Symphony Orchestra</a> under <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Reiner" title="Fritz Reiner">Fritz Reiner</a>. In 2000, RCA released a double CD compilation entitled <i>Jascha Heifetz – The Supreme</i>. This release provides a sampling of Heifetz's major recordings, including the 1955 recording of <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Brahms" title="Johannes Brahms">Brahms's</a> <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Brahms)" title="Violin Concerto (Brahms)">Violin Concerto</a> with Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; the 1957 recording of <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky" title="Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky">Tchaikovsky's</a> <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)">Violin Concerto</a> (with the same forces); the 1959 recording of <a href="/wiki/Jean_Sibelius" title="Jean Sibelius">Sibelius's</a> <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Sibelius)" title="Violin Concerto (Sibelius)">Violin Concerto</a> with <a href="/wiki/Walter_Hendl" title="Walter Hendl">Walter Hendl</a> and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; the 1961 recording of <a href="/wiki/Max_Bruch" title="Max Bruch">Max Bruch's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Fantasy" title="Scottish Fantasy">Scottish Fantasy</a></i> with Sir <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Sargent" title="Malcolm Sargent">Malcolm Sargent</a> and the <a href="/wiki/New_Symphony_Orchestra_(London)" title="New Symphony Orchestra (London)">New Symphony Orchestra</a> of London; the 1963 recording of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Glazunov" title="Alexander Glazunov">Glazunov's</a> <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Glazunov)" title="Violin Concerto (Glazunov)">A minor Concerto</a> with Walter Hendl and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (drawn from New York musicians); the 1965 recording of <a href="/wiki/George_Gershwin" title="George Gershwin">George Gershwin's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Preludes_(Gershwin)" title="Three Preludes (Gershwin)">Three Preludes</a></i> (transcribed by Heifetz) with pianist Brooks Smith; and the 1970 recording of <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Bach's</a> unaccompanied <i>Chaconne</i> from the <a href="/wiki/Partita_for_Violin_No._2_(Bach)" title="Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)">Partita No. 2 in D minor</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third_Israel_tour">Third Israel tour</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Third Israel tour"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jascha_Heifetz_1_1953.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Jascha_Heifetz_1_1953.jpg/220px-Jascha_Heifetz_1_1953.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Jascha_Heifetz_1_1953.jpg/330px-Jascha_Heifetz_1_1953.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Jascha_Heifetz_1_1953.jpg/440px-Jascha_Heifetz_1_1953.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>In <a href="/wiki/Beersheba" title="Beersheba">Beersheba</a>, Israel, 1953</figcaption></figure> <p>On his third tour to Israel in 1953, Heifetz included the <a href="/wiki/Violin_Sonata_(Strauss)" title="Violin Sonata (Strauss)">Violin Sonata</a> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Strauss" title="Richard Strauss">Richard Strauss</a> in his recitals. At the time, many considered Strauss and a number of other German intellectuals Nazis, or at least Nazi sympathizers, and Strauss works were unofficially banned in Israel along with those of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner" title="Richard Wagner">Richard Wagner</a>. Despite the fact that the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust">Holocaust</a> had occurred less than ten years earlier and a last-minute plea from <a href="/wiki/Ben-Zion_Dinur" title="Ben-Zion Dinur">Ben-Zion Dinur</a>, the Israeli Minister of Education, the defiant Heifetz argued, "The music is above these factors … I will not change my program. I have the right to decide on my repertoire." In Haifa his performance of the Strauss sonata was greeted with applause, however in Tel Aviv it was followed by dead silence.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heifetz was attacked after his recital in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> outside his hotel by a young man who struck Heifetz's violin case with a crowbar, prompting Heifetz to use his bow-controlling right hand to protect his priceless violins. The attacker escaped and was never found. The attack has since been attributed to the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(group)" title="Kingdom of Israel (group)">Kingdom of Israel</a> militant group.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The incident made headlines and Heifetz defiantly announced that he would not stop playing the Strauss. Threats continued to come, however, and he omitted the Strauss from his next recital without explanation. His last concert was cancelled after his swollen right hand began to hurt. He left Israel and did not return until 1970. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heifetz married twice for 17 years each. His first wife was silent film actress <a href="/wiki/Florence_Vidor" title="Florence Vidor">Florence Vidor</a>, the ex-wife of film director <a href="/wiki/King_Vidor" title="King Vidor">King Vidor</a>. Florence was 33 and Jascha was 27 when they married in August 1928, with the Jewish media commenting that she was a Christian from Texas marrying a Russian Jew. Florence brought her nine-year-old daughter, Suzanne Vidor, into the marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The union produced one daughter, Josefa Heifetz, born in 1930, and a son named Robert Joseph Heifetz, born in 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-About_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jascha Heifetz filed for divorce at the end of 1945 in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Ana,_California" title="Santa Ana, California">Santa Ana, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heifetz married a second time, wedding Frances Spiegelberg in January 1947 in <a href="/wiki/Beverly_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Beverly Hills">Beverly Hills</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frances was a society lady from New York who also had a previous marriage with two children, ending in divorce. Their son Joseph "Jay" Heifetz was born in September 1948 in Los Angeles. Heifetz divorced her in 1963,<sup id="cite_ref-About_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with temporary alimony ordered by the court in January,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the divorce finalized in December.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heifetz enjoyed sailing off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a>, and he was a <a href="/wiki/Stamp_collecting" title="Stamp collecting">stamp collector</a>. He played tennis and ping-pong, and amassed a personal library of books.<sup id="cite_ref-About_11-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After an only partially successful operation on his right shoulder in 1972, Heifetz ceased giving concerts and making records. His prowess as a performer remained, and he still played privately until the end—but his bow arm was affected, and he could never again hold the bow as high as before. </p><p>Late in life, Heifetz was known as a dedicated teacher and a champion of socio-political causes. He publicly advocated to establish <a href="/wiki/9-1-1" class="mw-redirect" title="9-1-1">9-1-1</a> as an emergency phone number, and crusaded for clean air. He and his students at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a> protested smog by wearing gas masks, and in 1967, he converted his Renault passenger car into an electric vehicle.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Koelman_%26_Heifetz_1979.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Koelman_%26_Heifetz_1979.jpg/220px-Koelman_%26_Heifetz_1979.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Koelman_%26_Heifetz_1979.jpg/330px-Koelman_%26_Heifetz_1979.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Koelman_%26_Heifetz_1979.jpg/440px-Koelman_%26_Heifetz_1979.jpg 2x" data-file-width="680" data-file-height="418" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Koelman" title="Rudolf Koelman">Rudolf Koelman</a> (left) with Heifetz, 1979</figcaption></figure> <p>Heifetz taught the violin extensively, holding master classes first at <a href="/wiki/UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA">UCLA</a>, then at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a>, where the faculty included renowned cellist <a href="/wiki/Gregor_Piatigorsky" title="Gregor Piatigorsky">Gregor Piatigorsky</a> and violist <a href="/wiki/William_Primrose" title="William Primrose">William Primrose</a>. For a few years in the 1980s, he also held classes in his private studio at home in Beverly Hills. His teaching studio can be seen today in the main building of the <a href="/wiki/Colburn_School" title="Colburn School">Colburn School</a> and serves as an inspiration to the students there. During his teaching career Heifetz taught, among others, <a href="/wiki/Erick_Friedman" title="Erick Friedman">Erick Friedman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Amoyal" title="Pierre Amoyal">Pierre Amoyal</a>, Adam Han-Gorski, <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Koelman" title="Rudolf Koelman">Rudolf Koelman</a>, Endre Granat, Teiji Okubo, <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Fodor_(violinist)" title="Eugene Fodor (violinist)">Eugene Fodor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Rosenthal_(violinist)" title="Paul Rosenthal (violinist)">Paul Rosenthal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ilkka_Talvi" title="Ilkka Talvi">Ilkka Talvi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ayke_Agus" title="Ayke Agus">Ayke Agus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-About_11-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heifetz died at <a href="/wiki/Cedars-Sinai_Medical_Center" title="Cedars-Sinai Medical Center">Cedars-Sinai Medical Center</a> in Los Angeles, California, on December 10, 1987, at the age of 86 following a fall in his home.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimesobit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimesobit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heifetz owned the 1714 <i><a href="/wiki/Dolphin_Stradivarius" title="Dolphin Stradivarius">Dolphin Stradivarius</a></i>, the 1731 "Piel" Stradivarius, the 1736 Carlo Tononi, and the 1742 <i>ex David</i> <a href="/wiki/Guarneri" title="Guarneri">Guarneri</a> del Gesù, the last of which he preferred and kept until his death. The Dolphin Strad is currently owned by the Nippon Music Foundation and is on loan to <a href="/wiki/Ray_Chen" title="Ray Chen">Ray Chen</a>. The Heifetz Tononi violin, used at his 1917 Carnegie Hall debut, was left in his will to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sherry_Kloss&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sherry Kloss (page does not exist)">Sherry Kloss</a>, his Master-Teaching Assistant, with "one of my four good bows". Violinist Kloss wrote <i>Jascha Heifetz Through My Eyes</i>, and is a co-founder of the Jascha Heifetz Society.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The famed Guarneri is now in the San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum, as instructed by Heifetz in his will, and may only be taken out and played "on special occasions" by deserving players. The instrument has recently been on loan to San Francisco Symphony's <a href="/wiki/Concertmaster" title="Concertmaster">concertmaster</a> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Barantschik" title="Alexander Barantschik">Alexander Barantschik</a>, who featured it in 2006 with <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Gorbatenko" title="Andrei Gorbatenko">Andrei Gorbatenko</a> and the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Academy_Orchestra" title="San Francisco Academy Orchestra">San Francisco Academy Orchestra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1989, Heifetz received a posthumous <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award">Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family">Family</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heifetz's first child, Josefa, is a <a href="/wiki/Lexicography" title="Lexicography">lexicographer</a>, the author of the <i>Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words</i>. Her married name is Josefa Heifetz Byrne.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heifetz's second child, Robert, picked up a love of sailing from his father. He taught <a href="/wiki/Urban_planning" title="Urban planning">urban planning</a> at several colleges and universities. He was a peace activist who protested US military intervention around the world, and encouraged peace talks between Israel and Palestine. He died of cancer in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Heifetz's third child, known as Jay, is a professional photographer. He was head of marketing for the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Philharmonic" title="Los Angeles Philharmonic">Los Angeles Philharmonic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Bowl" title="Hollywood Bowl">Hollywood Bowl</a>, and the chief financial officer of <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a>' Worldwide Video Division. He lives and works in <a href="/wiki/Fremantle" title="Fremantle">Fremantle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a>. </p><p>Heifetz's grandson is musician <a href="/wiki/Danny_Heifetz" title="Danny Heifetz">Daniel Mark "Danny" Heifetz</a>, born in 1964, who served as a long-time drummer for several bands, best known for his decade with <a href="/wiki/Mr._Bungle" title="Mr. Bungle">Mr. Bungle</a> during 1988–1999.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heifetz played a featured role in the movie <i><a href="/wiki/They_Shall_Have_Music" title="They Shall Have Music">They Shall Have Music</a></i> (1939), directed by <a href="/wiki/Archie_Mayo" title="Archie Mayo">Archie Mayo</a> and written by <a href="/wiki/John_Howard_Lawson" title="John Howard Lawson">John Howard Lawson</a> and Irmgard von Cube.<sup id="cite_ref-Film_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Film-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He played himself, stepping in to save a music school for poor children from foreclosure. He later appeared in the film, <i><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Hall_(film)" title="Carnegie Hall (film)">Carnegie Hall</a></i> (1947), performing an abridged version of the first movement of Tchaikovsky's <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Tchaikovsky)" title="Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)">Violin Concerto</a>, with the orchestra led by <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Reiner" title="Fritz Reiner">Fritz Reiner</a>. In 1951, he appeared in the film <i>Of Men and Music</i>. In 1962, he appeared in a televised series of his master classes, and, in 1971, <i>Heifetz on Television</i> aired, an hour-long color special in which he performed a series of short works: the <i><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Fantasy" title="Scottish Fantasy">Scottish Fantasy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Max_Bruch" title="Max Bruch">Max Bruch</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Chaconne" title="Chaconne">Chaconne</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Partita_for_Violin_No._2_(Bach)" title="Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)">Partita No. 2</a> by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">J.<span class="nowrap"> </span>S.<span class="nowrap"> </span>Bach</a>. Heifetz conducted the orchestra, as the surviving video recording documents.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_instruments">Notable instruments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notable instruments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dolphin_Stradivarius" title="Dolphin Stradivarius"><i>Dolphin</i> 1714 Stradivarius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stradivarius" title="Stradivarius"><i>Heifetz-Piel</i> 1731 Stradivarius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Stradivari" title="Antonio Stradivari">Antonio Stradivari</a> 1734</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlo_Annibale_Tononi" title="Carlo Annibale Tononi">Carlo Tononi 1736</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Guadagnini" title="Giovanni Battista Guadagnini">Giovanni Battista Guadagnini</a>, Piacenza 1741</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Guarneri" title="Giuseppe Guarneri"><i>ex-David</i> 1742 Guarneri</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz_Competition" title="Jascha Heifetz Competition">Jascha Heifetz Competition</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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December 12, 1987<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 4,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Jascha+Heifetz+%E2%80%93+the+official+web+site&rft.atitle=The+Heifetz+War+Years&rft.date=2010-12-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fjaschaheifetz.com%2Fabout%2Fthe-heifetz-war-years%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJascha+Heifetz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kennedy, Michael and Joyce Bourne. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=y0b0_CQATAIC&pg=PA331"><i>The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music</i></a>, Oxford University Press, 2004. p. 331.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070510060014/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828985,00.html">"The Best Violinists"</a>, time.com, February 2, 1962.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wallechinsky, David and Amy Wallace. <i>The New Book of Lists</i>. Canongate, 2005. p. 94.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The record confirming his birth on January 20, 1901 (full archival citation – LVIA/728/4/77) is held at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA). A copy of the record is held on microfilm by the family history archives of <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> in <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a> (No 2205068, image number – 795). 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Stokes Company, New York</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jascha_Heifetz&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 230px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="audio icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nuvola_apps_arts.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_arts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> You may hear Jascha Heifetz performing <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Brahms" title="Johannes Brahms">Johannes Brahms</a>' <a href="/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Brahms)" title="Violin Concerto (Brahms)">Violin Concerto in D Major Opus 77</a> with <a href="/wiki/Serge_Koussevitzky" title="Serge Koussevitzky">Serge Koussevitzky</a> conducting the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Boston Symphony Orchestra">Boston Symphony Orchestra</a> in 1939 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/BRAHMSViolinConcerto-Heifetz-NEWTRANSFER/01.I.AllegroNonTroppo.mp3"><b>Here on archive.org</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <style 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title="Heinz Holliger">Heinz Holliger</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Isserlis" title="Steven Isserlis">Steven Isserlis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Kreisler" title="Fritz Kreisler">Fritz Kreisler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gidon_Kremer" title="Gidon Kremer">Gidon Kremer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yo-Yo_Ma" title="Yo-Yo Ma">Yo-Yo Ma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wynton_Marsalis" title="Wynton Marsalis">Wynton Marsalis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Albrecht_Mayer" title="Albrecht Mayer">Albrecht Mayer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yehudi_Menuhin" title="Yehudi Menuhin">Yehudi Menuhin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Milstein" title="Nathan Milstein">Nathan Milstein</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anne-Sophie_Mutter" title="Anne-Sophie 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Robert Fine">C. Robert Fine</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fred_Gaisberg" title="Fred Gaisberg">Fred Gaisberg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Heymann" title="Klaus Heymann">Klaus Heymann</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Alain Lanceron</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Legge" title="Walter Legge">Walter Legge</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lewis_(Decca)" title="Edward Lewis (Decca)">Edward Lewis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Goddard_Lieberson" title="Goddard Lieberson">Goddard Lieberson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Mohr" title="Richard Mohr">Richard Mohr</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Ted Perry</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Wilkinson" title="Kenneth Wilkinson">Kenneth Wilkinson</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link 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