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 ...

Jascha Heifetz, the Russian-born virtuoso who was celebrated as one of the greatest violinists in history, has died in Los Angeles at 86. A spokesman for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said Mr. Heifetz ...

Elliah Heifetz (pronounced "High-fits") knows the value of a good song. He wouldn't be here without one. The New York-based lyricist is releasing his debut country album, First Generation American, ...

To Itzhak Perlman, he was, simply, "God." He was the greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century. He was the violinist who almost single-handedly defined the art of violin performance for an entire ...

Who attacked Heifetz 70 years ago in Jerusalem for the crime of playing Richard Strauss? A dive into an unsolved mystery. Jascha Heifetz, here in a 1933 portrait, toured Israel in April 1953. On his ...

Daniel Heifetz has announced his decision to step aside as the Heifetz International Music Institute’s full-time Artistic Director following the Institute’s 23rd summer in 2019. Heifetz will then ...

A new series of Sunday Matinees at the Forbes Center, the return of free afternoons of chamber music at the Blackfriars Playhouse, and the Junior Division showcases "grow up" into the Heifetz main ...

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 ...

For the past four decades, Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Ronald A. Heifetz has been the face of the school’s widely popular classes on leadership. But this year, Heifetz will no longer be teaching ...

Robert Heifetz, a former urban studies professor at San Francisco State University, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 68. Professor Heifetz was born in Los Angeles and received a ...