Always ready to profer advice to musicians, George Bernard Shaw once told the young Jascha Heifetz: ”Nothing must be perfect in this world, or else the gods become jealous and destroy it.” Shaw went ...

The piano was Johannes Brahms’ instrument of choice, and it’s clear from his many compositions featuring the piano that he knew the instrument inside out. But when it came time to compose a violin ...

To the public he was always the violinist, just as Vladimir Horowitz was the pianist and Arturo Toscanini the conductor. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Jascha Heifetz wrote the history of ...

Heifetz on Tour, the touring and outreach arm of the Heifetz International Music Institute, hits the road this fall for a three-city concert series with a special appearance in Staunton on Thursday, ...

To Itzhak Perlman, he was, simply, "God." He was the greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century. He was the violinist who almost single-handedly defined the art of violin performance for an entire ...

The Greeks had neither violins nor cellos, so it was not exactly as if Pan and Apollo had joined up on Olympus for a return engagement. But to many a Manhattan music lover, it seemed the next thing to ...