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American Ballet Theatre: 75th Anniversary is a soft-cover book of photographs of the ballet company's dancers, past and present, and articles written on the occasion of the company's 75th anniversary. A limited number are available for sale through shopPBS.

American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is recognized as one of the great dance companies in the world. Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope, and outreach. Recognized as a living national treasure since its founding in 1940, ABT is the only major ...

Sixteen-year-old Jascha Heifetz’s American debut, Carnegie Hall, October 27, 1917 Book excerpt courtesy of Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. On the day of Jascha’s American concert debut, people filed into the building until they were turned away: “The audience that witnessed the debut at ...

Music from Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler To serenade you for 84 minutes, American Masters has created a playlist of 21 recordings by Jascha Heifetz, all of which are among the compositions heard in the film Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler. Hear music by Debussy, Paganini, Prokofiev, ...

"After I came to America, my one aim, it seems, was to enjoy myself," said the violinist whose fame grew with his Carnegie Hall debut and first audio recordings made in 1917. Heifetz bought a large home in Narragansett, a car, and camera equipment with ...

Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen describes his three key assets for making the documentary Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler: the home movies by Heifetz that Rosen discovered; a set provided by Heifetz's reconstructed music studio; and the person of musician Ayke Agus, Heifetz's student, accompanist ...

Itzhak Perlman reminisces about his first encounter as a teenager with the world-famous violinist Jascha Heifetz. Perlman was a student at Juilliard and Heifetz stopped in at his class to hear him play. After performing, Perlman and his teacher Ivan Galamian thought Heifetz had heard ...

Jascha Heifetz, a child prodigy violin player, was taught to present himself passively to better focus attention on the music. This does not mean the music played by one of the world's greatest violinists didn't resonate with passion, as experts and fellow musicians attest to ...

The artistry of singer and actress Judy Garland (1922 - 1969) is a living legacy upheld by the great singers of our time. American Masters asked performing artists who hold Garland's work close to their hearts and in their own personal repertory what inspires them ...

Trumpeter and composer Clark Terry (1920 - 2015) talks about what Quincy Jones learned from Count Basie: the utilization of space and time. Terry gives examples of how Basie led his band's rhythm section and influenced the classic by trumpeter/composer Neal Hefti, "Li'l Darlin'." This ...