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Heifetz, Jascha (sh) and Sound of Music, The (oh)


Heifetz, Jascha (sh)




born Feb. 2, 1901, Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire
died Dec. 10, 1987, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.

Lithuanian-born U.S. violinist.

He studied with his father from age five, performing Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at age eight. From 1909 to 1914, although it was illegal for a Jew to live in St. Petersburg, he studied there with Leopold Auer (1845-1930). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1917, where for many years he performed in a trio with Artur Rubinstein and Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-76). His impeccable technique and musical flair made him perhaps the world's most famous violinist. He retired in 1972, having taught at the University of Southern California from 1959.


Sound of Music, The (oh)



(1965) a very popular US musical (=a Film that uses singing and dancing to tell a story) in which Julie Andrews appears as a nun who goes to live in the mountains to take care of a large family of children whose mother has died. She teaches them to sing, has a romantic relationship with their father and marries him, and helps them to escape from the Nazis. Many of the songs in the Film are very well known, including "Climb Every Mountain" and the song of the title, which begins "The hills are alive with the sound of Music".