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The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

by Dario Sarlo. Paperback or Hardcover, 284 pages.

Dario Sarlo contributes significantly to the growing field of analytical research into recordings and the history of performance style. With a focus on Heifetz and his under-acknowledged but extensive performances of Bach’s solo violin works (BWV 1001-1006), Sarlo investigates some of the most frequently performed works of the violin literature from the perspective of one of the most acclaimed performing musicians of all time.

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Jascha Heifetz: Early Years in Russia (Russian Music Studies)

by Galina Kopytova, Translated and Edited by Dario Sarlo & Alexandra Sarlo, Hardbound, 475 pages.

Based on interviews and historical records, this detailed biography traces the course of one of our generations greatest musicians from his earliest years and performances in Russia and Europe to his migration with his family to the United States in 1917.

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Jascha Heifetz in South Africa

by Michael Brittan. Hardbound.

In this thoroughly-researched and illustrated book, Michael Brittan drills down into the Heifetz legend and legacy. At the same time, he brings to life the fascinating saga of the makings of Depression-era South Africa and its musical life, along with hints of what the future would hold. Against this backdrop, engaging narrative documents the never-published details of Heifetz both on and off the South African concert stage.

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Heifetz As I Knew Him

by Ayke Agus. Paperback, 260 pages.

Ayke Agus met Heifetz as a violin student in his master class at the University of Southern California, and became his assistant. A sensitive and astute observer, Agus takes up where previous biographers left off; her book is a loving yet unblinking portrait of a master by his disciple.

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Jascha Heifetz Through My Eyes

by Sherry Kloss. Paperback or Hardcover, 167 pages.

The violin master class of Jascha Heifetz was a fascinating mix of nationalities, personalities, and temperaments. Mr. Heifetz, the artist, the teacher, and the man, shared with his students a tradition which he was largely responsible for creating.

Over the course of eleven years, Sherry Kloss worked with Heifetz first as a student, and later as his teaching assistant, in the process learning many of the things the outside world longed to know about him.

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