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Jascha Heifetz (/ˈhaɪfɪts/; February 2 [O.S. January 20]
1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Lithuanian-born American violinist. He was born
in Vilnius. As a teen, he moved with his family to the United States, where his
Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. He had a long and successful
performing and recording career; after an injury to his right (bowing) arm, he focused
on teaching. The New York Times called him "perhaps the greatest violinist
of all time."
Heifetz played a featured role in the movie They Shall Have
Music (1939) directed by Archie Mayo and written by John Howard Lawson and
Irmgard von Cube. He played himself, stepping in to save a music school for
poor children from foreclosure. He later appeared in the 1947 film, Carnegie
Hall, performing an abridged version of the first movement of Tchaikovsky's
Violin Concerto, with the orchestra led by Fritz Reiner, and consoling the star
of the picture, who had watched his performance. Heife...
