Heifetz On This Day
#OnThisDay: July 10, 2016
From an outdoor recording on July 10, 2016: Rachell Wong and Shuxiang Yang, violins; Stephanie Block, viola: and Bennie Fried, cello greet the dawn in Betsy Bell Wilderness Park in Staunton VA with a one-of-a-kind performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s experimental piece “Set Sail For the Sun,” which comes from his collection titled “From the Seven Days.”
#OnThisDay: July 9, 2025
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#OnThisDay: July 8, 2015
Heifetz OTD July 8, 2015: Violinists Geneva Lewis and Sophia Steger, violist Emma Wernig, and cellist Ethan Sandman make their debut as a string quartet with the first movement of Claude Debussy’s shimmering String Quartet, Op. 10.
#OnThisDay: July 7, 2017
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#OnThisDay: July 6, 2016
On This Day, July 6, 2016: Chad Hoopes performs two of the most well known works by Fritz Kreisler, and shares his thoughts on the character of the music by the master violinist and composer.
#OnThisDay: July 5, 2022
On This Day, July 5, 2022: 14-year old cellist Nicholas Wong makes his Heifetz debut playing the 24th Caprice by Paganini….on the cello!
#OnThisDay: July 4, 2016
On This Day, July 4, 2016: Violinist Wynton Grant and pianist Stefan Petrov play Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s arrangement of the spiritual “Deep River” at the Heifetz Independence Day concert at Monroe’s Highland in Charlottesville, VA.
#OnThisDay: July 3, 2015
Today’s Heifetz OnThisDay episode revisits a captivating performance from July 3, 2015 of cellist Timothy Eddy and pianist Beilin Han playing the second movement Adagio from the Cello Sonata, Op. 6, by Samuel Barber.
#OnThisDay: July 2, 2009
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#OnThisDay: July 1, 2016
Today’s Heifetz OnThisDay episode takes us back to June 29, 2023, for an inventive new arrangement of “The Swan” from the Carnival of the Animals, put together by Artistic Director Nicholas Kitchen.
#OnThisDay: June 30, 2010
Today’s episode takes us back to June 30, 2010, to see 12-year-old-violinist Hyun Jae (Hannah) Lin play the first movement of the Violin Concerto in E minor by Julius Conus, with the redoubtable Heifetz pianist Dina Vainshtein.
#OnThisDay: June 29, 2023
Today’s Heifetz OnThisDay episode takes us back to June 29, 2023, for an inventive new arrangement of “The Swan” from the Carnival of the Animals, put together by Artistic Director Nicholas Kitchen.