Jascha Heifetz-Rehearsal Hollywood Bowl(1931)

[Tobiasmiller1]

This is amazing footage even w/o sound. I loved seeing the Hollywood Bowl and the young Heifetz in his element!

[Ivanhoe2]

Many thanks for posting this rare clip. It was obviously a very hot day and it is interesting to view the maestro at work,,,even without sound. Best wishes.

[Rephrat]

conductor is Arthur Rodjinsky.

[josesblima]

Amazing ty for posting this :)

[bagigyerek]

hang nincs?

[TheMusician25]

he is a god of violin but he also is a regular person ;) i'm looking at it that way

[violinoamore]

Sounds Great !!!

[yamelchenko]

this clip shows heifetz to be very human,

to me he has always been something of a god on the violin. now i see that he was a regular person, living in the way of the 19hundreds.

[dixip]

i think he's playing the brahms...looks like the end of the 3rd movement?

[zigeunerviolin]

He looks cool with a cigarette. I think I'll pick up smoking now.

[josesblima]

@zigeunerviolin lol dont be fool if you wanna look cool like him practice harder...

[sma1968]

this is awesome, even without sound.

[Vivaldifan]

Heifetz smoked? haha.

[wiccalite]

And then he blows the smoke at his missus.

[carrottoponcrak]

everybody smoked back then

[5stringofFernandoSor]

Where is the fucking audio? A Heifetz video with no audio!

[TomBarrister]

It's probably a home movie and wasn't ever intended for public viewing.

[wowdanalise]

@TomBarrister

People did not just make home movies in 1931. A video was a laborious process to record.

And in addition do you think that even if a fan had a magic hand held camera at that time, would he be able to get those shots? You're either trolling or you need to think more.

[TomBarrister]

@wowdanalise Hand-held, spring-driven cameras were available in the early 1920s, and there would have been a lot of them around Hollywood.

P.S.: They didn't call them "videos" then.

[marvinmchr]

@wowdanalise You need to do more research before trolling a three-year-old comment with your sermon. There were several companies making portable cameras then. The best ones came from Germany. Portable cameras usable by amateurs were available with the introduction of Kodak's safety film and the Kinamo camera in 1923. Home movies were common then.

[pianistconductor]

Heifetz was making home movies in the mid 1920s, or having somebody make them for him. It's possible this is from his collection. Heifetz was good friends with Samuel Goldwyn, whose studio wasn't far away, and silent film star Florence Vidor was his wife at the time.

[denissem80211]

@wowdanalise @wowdanalise I think you're clueless lol.

In case you're wondering why we're all showing up here, Barrister posted your uninformed comment in our classical music forum.

Heifetz loved to make home movies. He didn't share them with the public. The upcoming DVD "Gods Fiddler" may include up to 30 minutes of home movies (not videos, noob, lolol) from his personal collection.

To others: There's no sound because it was a home movie. A studio would have used sound.

[MrStdoris]

@wowdanalise What's your theory then, Genius? Did a studio record this? No. This is 16mm film. A studio would have used 35mm, even for a soundless documentary.

Denise: when you edit in Notepad, be sure to delete the extra @names ;).

[TomBarrister]

It's Rodzinski, and the orchestra is the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which he conducted from 1929 to 1933.

[winrx]

That appears to be Artur Rodzinski conducting the NYP (?) at what was once called Lewisohn Stadium.

[ipmoic]

Who's the conductor? Looks like William Merrigan Daly.