1. The Greatest Piano Player of Them All?
(Entertainment/Movies)

... (like Heifetz) looked upon him contemptuously. “In short, he did not consider me his equal.” Horowitz in turn had nasty things to say about Van Cliburn and Emil Gilels, and in a video I have, mocked ...

2. America's Greatest 20th Century Author? My Vote is for Roger Kahn
(U.S./Nation)

... the student unrest at Columbia University in 1968, literary figures, including Robert Frost, and musicians, including Jascha Heifetz.  Roger Kahn does not just write about balls and strikes, errors ...

3. Pianist Byron Janis at age 84
(Entertainment/Movies)

... made a great many recordings. He has met and befriended many noted people, including Vladimir Horowitz, Pablo Picasso, Jascha Heifetz, Arturo Toscanini, and Marc Chagall. His wife, Maria, is tall, ...

4. A revealing interview with violinist Joshua Bell
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... Bell doesn’t seem to be is another Jascha Heifitz – austere, cold, and remote. Heifetz tried to be perfectly immobile while he played; Bell moves around a lot. And can you imagine the haughty Heifetz donning ...

5. On BBC's '50 Greatest Music Recordings of All Time'
(Entertainment/Movies)

... recordings to the general public, and whose rendition of “Si pei ciel” from “Otello” with Titta Ruffo has been considered the single best recording of all time. And no Toscanini, no Heifetz, ...

6. The history of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Steinberg. Guest conductors have included Pablo Casals; the principal guest conductor is now Gianandrea Noseda. Guest performers have included Arthur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, who injured his bowing ...

7. Who were the three greatest pianists?
(Entertainment/Movies)

... And very stuck on himself. The great violinist Jascha Heifetz complained that records of trios he, Rubinstein, and cello player Emanuel Feuermann made always listed Rubinstein first. Rubinstein countered ...

8. Itzhak Perlman: The virtuoso who calls himself a fiddler
(Entertainment/Movies)

... things are easy for some people, but hard for others — and vice versa. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3richcoCUI) Perlman is famous not just for his magnificent violin playing — the great Jascha Heifetz himself ...

9. Camden was once a hub of music
(Life/Style)

... Jones, Fats Waller, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Jimmie Rodgers, Alberta Hunter, The Carter Family, Jascha Heifetz, Arturo Toscanini, Woody Gutherie and John McCormick. Victor's ...

10. Baseball icon Vin Scully bridges sports, politics, broadcasting
(Sports/Professional)

... plays it like Jascha Heifetz played a violin. "He catches the ball gingerly, like a baby chick falling from the tree." Relive a weak hit evoking Eugene O'Neill's "a humble thing, but thine own." Churchill ...