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Musicians on Heifetz

Heifetz 80th Birthday Celebration KXPR - Josh Livingstone, producer Edited program. Duration: 1h:22min
William Primrose on Heifetz Heifetz 80th Birthday Celebration KXPR - Josh Livingstone, producer Edited program
Brooks Smith on Heifetz Heifetz 80th Birthday Celebration KXPR - Josh Livingstone, producer Edited program
Miklos Rosza on Heifetz Heifetz 80th Birthday Celebration KXPR - Josh Livingstone, producer Edited program
Jacob Lateiner on Heifetz Heifetz 80th Birthday Celebration KXPR - Josh Livingstone, producer Edited program
Jack Pfeiffer on Heifetz Heifetz 80th Birthday Celebration KXPR - Josh Livingstone, producer Edited program
Sherry Kloss on Heifetz Heifetz 100th Birthday Celebration "In Performance" - Eric Friesen interviews Sherry Kloss on CBC radio Edited program. Duration: 6min
Erick Friedman on Heifetz Heifetz 100th Birthday Celebration "In Performance" - Eric Friesen interviews Erick Friedman on CBC radio Edited program. Duration: 8:34
Pinchas Zukerman on Heifetz Eric Fiesen interviews Pinchas Zukerman in "The concerto according to Pinchas" http://www.cbc.ca/concertos/program2.html Edited program. Duration: 7min
Eudice Shapiro on Heifetz Violinist and pedagogue Eudice Shapirro speaks to Gail Eichenthal about Heifetz she knew.
Ayke Agus on Heifetz Interview with Joan Kjaer in "Know the Score" Edited program. Duration: 37min

Mischa Elman	"I want the same mike you use on Jascha's E string" (half joking, half complaining to producer Jack Pfeiffer)	Fritz Kreisler	"Well gentlemen, we can now all break our violins across our knees" (after accompanying at the piano the young Heifetz in Berlin, 1912).
David Oistrakh	"There are many great violinists, then there's Heifetz. He is in a class by himself".	Nathan Milstein	"Nobody can play the violin like that. I can't, nobody can. Forget his recordings. What Heifetz does in live performance is just incredible".
Yehudi Menuhin	"When I made my acquaintance with Jascha Hiefetz and his recordings, they represented everything I wanted to be, the sound, the elegance, the perfection".	iCarl Flesch	"He is the high priest of our profession".
Henryk Szeryng	"He was the Emperor".	Gregor Piatigorsky	" 'The Chief', 'The General' - I love that man" - said the "Admiral", as Heifetz used to call Piatigorsky.
William Primrose	"He was unique. There's never been a violinist like him and never will be. He could produce a beauty of phrase that was heartbreaking".	Isaac Stern	"He is beyond the ordinary discussion of players or performers, in their time. He belongs to all time, one of the rare high watermarks".
Erich Leinsdorf	"He is nonpareil".	Carlo Maria Giulini	"He played like a God. He is THE violinist, THE artist, THE musician. You cannot imagine something more complete as an instrumentalist, as a musician and as an artist as Jascha Heifetz. You can spend thousands of words but words are nothing.
Arturo Toscanini	"The finest of all string players".	Brooks Smith	"He stood there motionless, almost statuesque. But what came out of that...."
Itzhak Perlman	"Whenever I listen to him I feel like the King is playing. The height he had reached has never been reached by anyone else. He has given all generations after him a goal to look up to. He made himself a place on top of history."	Lynn Harell	"The ease and the panache and this devil-may-care that he brings to playing through one of his very difficult passages, perfectly, staggers the imagination. What he did is set a standard that every violinist had to live with and without him the kind of violin playing we have today could never have come about".
Dorothy DeLay	"His playing is absolutely unique. There's tremendous energy, extreme elegance, incredible facility and incredible sensitivity, imagination and intelligence at work. It's just extraordinary, I don't think that anyone has ever done what he's done.	Yo Yo Ma	"I think he's the greatest string player that has ever lived. Without question".
Arthur Rubinstein	"A great artist, a miserable human being".	Pichas Zukerman	"His sound and his unquestionable perfection has been unmatched by anyone before or since". I just want to play like Jascha Heifetz one day, just for ten minutes, but I can't" (More here)
Ida Haendel	"He is the ideal of violin playing. Violinistically he was unique. His kind of mastery is quite incredible".	Shlomo Mintz	"He produced the most magnificent playing".
Josef Gingold	"Heifetz set a standard of excellence of string playing which has been an inspiration and model to emulate. His technical, tonal beauty, perfect intonation and mastery of every facet influenced us all. For me he is the master supreme".	Franco Gulli	"Mr. Heifetz's elegant and personal sense of phrasing, combined with his unlimited virtuosity, made of him a performer of unique stature.
James Galway	"If you listen often enough and long enough to Heifetz, you will begin to think there's no other way to play".	Miklos Rosza	"He achieved the top. His playing was ravishing..".