The Caprice Viennois is just a good three and a half minutes of well-crafted gemütlichkeit with which Kreisler could charm his audiences." - Blair Johnston, All Music Guide No less of a figure than the late Joseph Silverstein, the longtime concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, declared that the Caprice Viennois was the hardest of all of Fritz Kreisler's "bonbons" to play, for the … [Read more...]
Alumni Showcase & Preview Concert
We are thrilled to open the curtain on Heifetz Rubato: The Virtual Concert Hall with a special Alumni Showcase and Preview Concert on Monday June 1. The live streaming event will feature an all-star cast of Heifetz alumni sharing performances from around the world, including Boston, New York City, Hawaii, Houston, Montreal, Hong Kong, and even a surprise Staunton landmark. Featuring performances … [Read more...]
Videos of the YEAR: The Top Ten of 2019!
And more of the world is discovering us, too! In 2018, the views on our YouTube channel topped 1 million (it's over 1.5 million now!), and we tripled the number of our subscribers. In December alone, we had more than 100,000 views to our channel - more than the entire year when we began producing videos in earnest in 2015. Heifetz Institute - "The Top Ten of Twenty Eighteen" - January 1, … [Read more...]
Video of the Week: Impressions of Paganini, from Shannon Lee
Each one of the 24 Caprices by the 19th-century violin virtuoso is designed to develop both a violinist's technique, AND to expand the potential of the instrument's tone colors and expressive range. Though often the musicality of Paganini gets lost in devilishly tricky technical challenges! Heifetz Institute alum and 2019 Artist in Residence and Teaching Fellow Shannon Lee was more than up to … [Read more...]
Videos of the YEAR: The Top Ten of Twenty Eighteen
Every week, we dip in to our robust multimedia archive to share with you some of the remarkable performances of Heifetz artists - students, faculty, and alumni - captured in concert. Whether it's in our "home base" of Mary Baldwin University's Francis Auditorium, in the Blackfriars Playhouse of the American Shakespeare Center, under the Hootenanny Tent, or any of our Heifetz On Tour venues, the … [Read more...]
