Jascha Heifetz's 124th Birthday!

A luminary, a virtuoso, a crack wit - these traits are uncommon alone, yet Jascha Heifetz embodied them all. A star violinist, born in 1901, Heifetz showed the world a level of technical prowess on the violin, potentially not seen since Paganini's death in 1840. At age 12, after playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at a private meeting with renowned violinist Fritz Kreisler, Kreisler confidently proclaimed, "We may as well break our fiddles across out knees." Join Shar Music in honoring the extraordinary life of one of the greatest musicians - and certainly violinists - of all time.