Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz

Author: Galina Kopytova

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-11-13

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 0253010896

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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 Heifetz: Early Years in Russia uncovers the events and experiences that shaped one of the modern era's most unique talents and enigmatic personalities. Using previously unstudied archival materials and interviews with family and friends, this biography explores Heifetz's 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 pedagogue Leopold Auer, to his tours throughout Russia and Europe. Spotlighting Auer's close-knit circle of musicians, Galina Kopytova underscores the lives of artists in Russia's "Silver Age"—an explosion of artistic activity amid the rapid social and political changes of the early 20th century.

The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz
The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

Author: Dr Dario Sarlo

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-09-28

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 147244423X

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The violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) is considered among the most influential performers in history. Focussing on Heifetz and his extensive performing relationship with the Bach solo violin works (BWV 1001-1006), Dario Sarlo examines one of the most successful performing musicians of the twentieth century along with some of the most frequently performed works of the violin literature. The book proposes a comprehensive method for analysing and interpreting the legacies of prominent historical performers. By building up an understanding of multiple individual performance styles, it will become possible to gain deeper insight into how performance style develops over time.

Heifetz as I Knew Him
Heifetz as I Knew Him

Author: Ayke Agus

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781574671216

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For the last 15 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 accompanist and ultimately his assistant and confidante. A sensitive and astute observer, Agus takes up where previous biographers left off; her book is a loving yet unblinking portrait of an aging master by his disciple.

Selections from Porgy and Bess (Songbook)
Selections from Porgy and Bess (Songbook)

Author: Jascha Heifitz

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1990-03-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1476857172

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(Fretted). Long out of print, these virtuoso transcriptions by the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz date from 1947, and have previously been available only separately. These showpieces capture the excitement of Gershwin's score in a unique and fascinating way. Includes: It Ain't Necessarily So * Summertime * A Woman Is a Sometime Thing * I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' * Bess, You Is My Woman * Tempo Di Blues.

Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto
Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto

Author: Tina K. Ramnarine

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0190611537

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Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is the story of Sibelius as performer and composer, of violin performing traditions, of histories of musical transmission, and of virtuosity itself. It investigates the history and legacy of one of the most recorded concertos in the violin repertoire. Sibelius, a celebrated and influential composer of the late 19th and 20th centuries, was an accomplished violinist, whose enduring interest in the instrument has been paralleled by the broad success of the only concerto in his oeuvre: his violin concerto (premiered in 1904 and revised in 1905). Considering how violinists engage with the work, author Tina K. Ramnarine discusses technology's central role in the concerto's transmission from Jascha Heifetz's seminal 1935 recording to contemporary online performances, gender issues in violin solo careers, and nature-based musical aesthetics that lead to thinking about the ecology of virtuosity in an era of environmental crisis. Beginning with Sibelius's early training as a violinist and his aspirations as a performer, Ramnarine traces the dramatic historical context of the violin concerto. It was composed as Finland underwent a period of heightened self-determination, nationalism, and protest against Russian imperial policies, and it heralded intense political dynamics relating to Europe's East-West border that have extended to the present. This story of the violin concerto points to the notion of Sibelius - and the virtuoso more generally - as a political figure.

Heifetz
Heifetz

Author: Todd M. Axelrod

Publisher: TFH Publications

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13:

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An unauthorized pictoral biography of the private and professional life of the greatest violinist that ever lived. With Henry Roth's critical analysis, edited by Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod (Klappentext)