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Article: Jascha Heifetz, 86, great violinist of modern age
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 13, 1987
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LOS ANGELES Jascha Heifetz, 86, the Russian-born prodigy whose
sublime richness of tone and unparalleled poetic powers in
interpreting the world's great composers made him the greatest violin
virtuoso since Paganini, died early Friday.
He underwent brain surgery several weeks ago after falling in
his Beverly Hills home. Death came in the Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center, where he was hospitalized under the name Jim Hoyl - an alias
he often used as a composer of popular songs.
He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short -
"just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in
America in 1917" - but the tributes were immediate and numerous.
Itzhak Perlman, ...