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  "description": "From Wikipedia\n\nJascha Heifetz (/ˈhaɪfɪts/; February 2 [O.S. January 20]\n\n1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Lithuanian-born American violinist. He was born\n\nin Vilnius. As a teen, he moved with his family to the United States, where his\n\nCarnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. He had a long and successful\n\nperforming and recording career; after an injury to his right (bowing) arm, he focused\n\non teaching. The New York Times called him \"perhaps the greatest violinist\n\nof all time.\"\n\nHeifetz played a featured role in the movie They Shall Have\n\nMusic (1939) directed by Archie Mayo and written by John Howard Lawson and\n\nIrmgard von Cube. He played himself, stepping in to save a music school for\n\npoor children from foreclosure. He later appeared in the 1947 film, Carnegie\n\nHall, performing an abridged version of the first movement of Tchaikovsky's\n\nViolin Concerto, with the orchestra led by Fritz Reiner, and consoling the star\n\nof the picture, who had watched his performance. Heifetz later recorded the\n\ncomplete Tchaikovsky concerto with Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as\n\none of RCA Victor's \"Living Stereo\" discs. In 1951, he appeared in\n\nthe film Of Men and Music. In 1962, he appeared in a televised series of his\n\nmaster classes, and, in 1971, Heifetz on Television aired, an hour-long color\n\nspecial that featured the violinist performing a series of short works, the\n\nScottish Fantasy by Max Bruch, and the Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 by J.S.\n\nBach. Heifetz even conducted the orchestra, as the surviving video recording\n\ndocuments.\n\nThe most recent film featuring Heifetz, Jascha Heifetz:\n\nGod's Fiddler, premiered on April 16, 2011 at the Colburn School of Music. It\n\nis described as \"The only film biography of the world's most renowned\n\nviolinist, featuring family home movies in Los Angeles and all over the world.\n\nThe documentary-like film talks about Heifetz's life and accomplishments and gives\n\nan inside view of his personal life.\n\nHeifetz died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,\n\nCalifornia in December 1987.",
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