Heifetz Videos of the Week
Video of the Week: Shall We Gather?
“As I see it, music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.” – Aaron Copland As the nation prepares to inaugurate Joe Biden as the 46th President of…
Video of the Week: A Parade of Rain from Johannes Brahms
From a July 2019 Stars of Tomorrow concert violinist Sophia Steger and pianist Beilin Han play the first movement of the so-called “Rain” Sonata by Johannes Brahms.
Video of the Week: Postcard from the Past: Nobuko Imai Plays Bruch
Bruch crafted his Romance for viola and orchestra, an affectionate “postcard from the past” that could easily have come from the pen of Mendelssohn, Brahms, or Schumann.
Videos of the YEAR: 20 Picks from 2020
Yes, it was a Year Like No Other, but through it all, Heifetz was there to share some truly magical music moments! Now we've reviewed the tapes, run the numbers, and had the arguments: From the...
Video of the Week: A Christmas Concerto from the Kreeger
Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, impresario, and Roman Catholic priest Antonio VivaldiThe Mystical Nativity, from the turn of the 16th century by the Italian...
Video of the Week: Thank You For the Miracles
Tomorrow night, the first candles will glow for Hanukkah 2020, which starts on the evening of Thursday, December 10, 2020, and ends with the final candle being lit for the Festival of Lights on the...
Video of the Week: Finding the Pulse in Paganini
“In the three variations, in the main theme, and in the introduction…each section has a heartbeat that keeps it alive,” say violinist Pierce Wang about Paganini’s ultra-tricky Variations on “I Palpiti….”
Video Of The Week: Beethoven’s Thanksgiving
"For composers and musicians, this remarkable piece of music has proved irresistible, providing solace and giving strength even when the future seems lost." – BBC In the words of Heifetz Institute...
Video of The Week: Mo Mo Crouches – And Springs!
“The Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon soundtrack is every bit as big a masterpiece as the film from which it comes.” ( – Kevin Lynch, Capital Times). Composer Tan Dun had only two weeks to dream up the entire score.
Video of the Week: A Miss & A Hit from Grieg
Grieg’s miniature masterpiece is performed ‘midst the masterworks hanging in the collection of the renowned Kreeger Museum of Art in Washington, DC, a frequent Heifetz on Tour destination.
Video of the Week: Beethoven’s Tears of Gold
Our latest Video of the Week features one of the most extraordinary movements in all of Beethoven’s string quartets…the “Cavatina” from the String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130., which ends with the Grosse Fuge…
Video of the Week: A Devilishly Difficult Dance
Hector Berlioz gave us the Symphonie Fantastique, with its spooky “Witches Sabbath” movement; today’s Video of the Week (just in time for Hallowe’en), is the terrifyingly difficult Scherzo Fantastique,…