Jascha Heifetz Philosophises
NEED FOR VARIETY MUSIC ALONE NOT ENOUGH
Music alone is not enough to fill an artist’s life, declares Jascha Heifetz. “One must add to it all the other interests he can. For myself—books, travel, people, sports—but not politics. "Politics are not for the musician,”
he continued. “Fortunately, I can speak through music to people of all opinions and races. I do not need to know their convictions and they do not need to know mine.
“When I studied at the conservatory in Leningrad, we were not considered properly taught if we knew only our own instruments. We violinists, for instance, had to study something of the piano, the harp and, of course, the viola. “1 do not play the ’cello. That is very different and difficult. But I can play just one scale on it —the scale of C. Sometimes I can bluff on that with people who ask me to try their instruments.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 14
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