To serenade you for 84 minutes, American Masters has created a playlist of 21 recordings by Jascha Heifetz, all of which are among the compositions heard in the film Jascha Heifetz: God’s Fiddler.

Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), geboren in Vilnius im russischen Kaiserreich und 1917 nach Amerika ausgewandert, war zweifellos einer der größten und einflussreichsten Geigenvirtuosen seit Niccolò ...

This “American Masters” film chronicles the life of the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), an artist known for his unyielding personal reserve on stage and off. Few people with whom he ...

In the new documentary “God’s Fiddler,” on the life of Jascha Heifetz, director Peter Rosen succeeds in creating the first film biography of the violin virtuoso. The film succeeds as a sort of ...

In 1923, Heifetz gave concerts for Japanese quake victims, and to raise money for them. Jascha Heifetz traveled to Japan in 1923, weeks after the earthquake on September 1 that devastated Tokyo, ...

‘God’s Fiddler’ chronicles the violin virtuoso’s life and career. Genius is pure enigma. It has been called “an infinite capacity for taking pains,” but that quality describes drudgery too. There must ...

nff. ⋅ Er gilt vielen als der grösste Geiger des 20. Jahrhunderts, doch kaum jemand weiss, wer dieser Mensch war, der da mit unbeweglichem Gesichtsausdruck auf der Bühne stand und Musik auf eine Weise ...

Peter Rosen's doc biopic takes advantage of solid performance footage shot throughout the soloist's six-decade career. By THR Staff God's Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz - H 2011 NEW YORK — An informative if ...

Peter Rosen's uninspired docu on master violinist Jascha Heifetz jogs along fairly briskly in dealing with the gifted prodigy's early years: his first public performance at age 5 in Vilna, his ...