sounds like our violin teacher, keep us on our toes ...

Or Heifetz doesn’t like Paganini

@violin614 I mean , usually it’s really up to the teacher to say what u play first . They let him teach them , so surly he has his reasons to start with whatever he feels like for each student

@@IC40R aww a@

That's what the best teacher does

You had one chance not to screw up. Or else bye bye. If you think that was strict, Auer was a terror. Many of Heifetz' quirks, like opening the gate 30 sec before the exact time, etc. were Auer's.

That’s how schools in Asia do it even today

Yes culture should never ever change. We should also go back and use the manners and conventions of the year 1435

People don't do that nowadays.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? LOTS OF RETARDS HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR YOU HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR AND YOUR A NITWIT

@@roman14032 "your a nitwit"

@No Theory This does not discredit his point

I didn't know there was any relation between a sense of humor and genius.

Poor Erick Friedman

If he asked that to Milstein, as Ysaye once did, the answer would have been "Which one shall I play?" Those 2 Heifetz and Milstein, were a category of their own.

He was a MASTER performer and a MASTER "kickass" teacher ....mollycoddling isn't going to produce great violinists....

@@lotusbuds2000 Igor Oistrakh said his father David did not practice scales or etudes. He preferred to practice the music .

@@amezcuaist Yes, and Heifetz had better intonation.

​​@@OttoKuust's not stage performance itself. Heifetz could play anything he wanted on the violin at will, including improvising whatever he thought in his mind, playing any piece impromptu, playing even when strings were out of tune, doing completely unrehearsed concerts and chamber music and playing right out of the score. The scale mastery meant he never actually physically needed to practice more than a few hours a day - it was all done in the mind. He played 65 concerts in war zones without repeating any number but the Hora Staccato in crazy conditions where you had no luxury to practice or rehearse. For all his scale practice, Heifetz once thought Milstein was even better at playing scales than he was.

When I listened to him tune I could tell that he was playing on an absolutely mint state, gorgeous violin. Most likely this was is Guarneri del Jesu that he played on because of the depth of the tone. Listening to him play for them is an immense treat. Nobody plays like him. He is the greatest and it had to be a treat for these students to work with him. And they were all excellent. And what idiot faulted the way Heifetz played unaccompanied Bach. It is absolutely stunning how he play the Ciaconne

I can barely play Chaconne as Bach wrote it!

are you serious, or joking ? :)

@@lotusbuds2000 Really.

WOW!!!! Viola probably make sound more deep

Good for playing Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto #6” and Berlioz’s “Harold In Italy”.

Heifetz continued his teaching at USC in LA after 1972. I was his student 1973~1977

Basketball677 answering one of the *mysteries of life* 😀

You should do it since Heifetz does that which means it is safe to do it:)

​@@petrus153w..t....??

Heifitz witty comments....delivered so straight on....really made me laugh...

Lololol

He's not teaching the violin, he's teaching Heifetz : ) In the old medieval craft guilds, after an apprentice had learned his craft from a master, he would spend some time as a journeyman, traveling around to learn different ways of doing things from other master craftsmen. That's what I see here.

He is not teaching the violin, he is teaching Heifetz : ). In the old medieval craft guilds, after an apprentice learned his craft from a master, he would travel around as a journeyman, learning different ways of doing things from.other master craftsmen. That's what I see here.

Heifetz recording of the chaccone was made when he was pretty old, I agree that here he was able to play it MUCH better

The variations are some auer/heifetz school variations and most probably not what bach intended. Bach wrote arpeggio and wrote the chords, Heifetz simply decided to break down the chords sometimes unevenly (like on the upbeat sometimes)

Yes Bach played the violin well and used a shorter bow .Also the violins were not as loud with the flatter neck angle at the time. These players and Heifetz sound (sounded ?) very strident . Also Heifetz " recording of Chaconne stops very quickly on the last note. It`s hard to forgive him for that. Sorry to be so strict with him .

And you remind me of…how do I put this…depression🤷🏻‍♂️ I’m sorry, but your comment has created an incredibly bad reaction within me and I feel compelled to respond, because I cannot fathom why a simple joke to lighten the mood in a classroom would make you think like this. I guess you enjoyed all of those professors who keep themselves constantly at arms length from their students and think themselves as superior beings even though they’re really just hired help being paid to teach a class, after which many of those students will go on to be more successful than them. Did you enjoy that? Apparently.

They used gut string core often at that time so tuning would loose often. My instrument does as well with pirarstro passione gut core. It doesn't really depend on the violin as much as on the strings (if they are old they will lose tuning more often)

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Heifetz hated shoulder rest with a passion. He firmly believed that the contact of a shoulder rest with the body of the instrument reduced the power and timbre of the instrument. So he advised against using them. I personally stopped using one not for the belief of "losing tone" but rather allowing the instrument to move while I play and not stay in one fixed point, allowing it to become an "extension" of myself and allowing freer mobility.

Makes it look cool too B)

Heifetz made all of his students girl or boy not to use shoulder rest. It was an order.

Now I am going to try with no sholder rest. it is slippering actually...so lets.s try without!

Nnnoooope. Now the violin slips.

If you mean the Tchaikovsky competition then it was Erick Friedman

For most. No one knows the workings of genius unless you're one.

Kalindi Bellach Eric Friedman

Peter van Deerse

Brahms Violin Sonata No.3 1st movement

its better jokes style than yelling or otherwise blatant criticism....I love JH's style of teaching!!!

If you type the japanese, I think they are japanese, characters that appear on screen while is saying what you want to understand you will indeed understand.

1. It’s Chinese 2. That part was not translated therefore it’s not possible

So what ?

Who cares?

Ferras would not be a student lol he was a soloist in his own right and in many ways a more sensitive player

He was Erik Friedman, who had a successful career in the 60s and 70s.

Dan Erik friedman was a solist. And in think this students hast a level most important at the level today of solist