Always ready to profer advice to musicians, George Bernard Shaw once told the young Jascha Heifetz: ”Nothing must be perfect in this world, or else the gods become jealous and destroy it.” Shaw went ...

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 ...

Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler were both born on Feb. 2 — Kreisler in 1875 and Heifetz in 1901. But the two men share more than just a birthday. Music commentator Miles Hoffman joins Renee Montagne ...

Jascha Heifetz, regarded as the greatest violin virtuoso since Paganini, died early Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, several weeks after undergoing brain surgery following a fall at his Beverly ...

Jeremy Nicholas and Rob Cowan discuss the premiere recording from 1953 Jeremy Nicholas For some reason I have always been fiercely defensive about this work and, despite his less than agreeable ...

Jascha Heifetz, widely regarded as the supreme master of the violin in this century, died late Thursday at the age of 86. He entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 16 to be treated ...