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TIMELINE
1901 Born
in Vilna, Russia on February 2.
1903 Began
violin study with father.
1905 Started
formal training with Ilya Malkin at Vilna's Imperial School of Music.
1907 First
public appearance, in Kovno, playing the Mendelssohn concerto.
1910 Began
violin studies with Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg.
1911 Official
debut in St. Petersburg, April 30.
1912 Debut
in Berlin, playing Tchaikovsky Concerto with Arthur Nikisch and
the
Berlin Philharmonic, October 28. Toured Austria and Scandinavia.
1917 American
debut, October 27 at Carnegie Hall. First recording November
9, with Andre Benoist as accompanist. Began touring in the United
States; made debuts in London and Paris (1920), in Australia (1921)
and in Asia (1923).
1919 Samuel
Chotzinoff became accompanist.
1925 Assumed
American citizenship. Isidor Achron replaced Chotzinoff as accompanist.
1927 Began
what became a series of over 100 transcriptions with Ponce's Estrellita.
1929 Debut
in South America.
1930 Published
transcription of Dinicu's Hora Staccato.
1934 Emanuel
Bay became accompanist. Gave 13 concerts in 17 days in Russia
-- only return to his native land.
1936 With
Lawrence Tibbett, helped form American Guild of Musical Artists.
1937 Served
as first vice president of American Federation of Radio Artists.
1939 Film
debut in They Shall Have Music.
1942-44 USO tours
for the American military, including 45 concerts in eight weeks
on the Italian and North African fronts.
1946 Under
the alias Jim Hoyl, Heifetz wrote his first popular song, "When
You
Make Love To Me - Don't Make Believe." Bing Crosby and Margaret
Whiting both recorded it.
1947 Began
20-month sabbatical.
1949 On
April 27, patent granted the Heifetz Mute (developed with Henry
Kaston).
1954 Brooks
Smith becomes accompanist.
1957 Joined
campaign to install the 911 emergency number in California.
1958-59 Regents Professor
of Music, University of California at Los Angeles.
1961 Became
professor of violin at Unversity of Southern California. Inaugurated
-- in Los Angeles -- series of Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts,
which later included San Fransisco and New York.
1970 Television
special taped in Paris for American broadcast.
1972 Final
concert, Los Angeles Music Center. Taping of it became last recording.
1973-87 Chamber music
with local and visiting artists. Pursued many and varied
interests, among them his series of transcriptions and the ecology
movement. Terminated association with U.S.C. in 1983 but continued
to teach privately.
1987 Died
December 10 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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