"Notoriously reticent about his early years, violinist Jascha Heifetz famously reduced the story of his childhood to "Born in Russia. First lessons at 3. Debut in Russia at 7. Debut in Carnegie Hall at 17. That's all there is to say." Tracing his little-known upbringing, Jascha …
Notoriously reticent about his early years, violinist Jascha Heifetz famously reduced the story of his childhood to ""Born in Russia. First lessons at 3. Debut in Russia at 7. Debut in Carnegie Hall at 17. That's all there is to say."" Tracing his little-known upbringing, Jascha…
This book traces Jascha Heifetz's little-known upbringing and the events and experiences that shaped him. It explores his meteoric rise in the Russian music world from his first violin lessons with his father, to his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with the well-known…
Notoriously reticent about his early years, violinist Jascha Heifetz famously reduced the story of his childhood to "Born in Russia. First lessons at 3. Debut in Russia at 7. Debut in Carnegie Hall at 17. That's all there is to say." Tracing his little-known upbringing, this boo…
This dissertation addresses the ways nationalism intersected with aesthetic movements of realism and modernism and developments in recording technologies, to shape the portrayal of rural musical practices by urban musicians in Central and Eastern Europe during the early twentiet…
"For the last fifteen years of Jascha Heifetz's life, Ayke Agus was his closest companion. She came to him as a violin student in his master class at the University of Southern California, but he singled her out when he heard her play the piano; she became his private accompanis…