Heifetz
Americannoun
noun
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Sinatra famously studied jazz and popular singers like Crosby and Billie Holiday and musicians like Tommy Dorsey as a young man, but also classical virtuosos like Jascha Heifetz.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
As the management guru Ronald Heifetz put it brilliantly: “What people resist is not change per se, but loss.”
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2023
Chaplin was sharing a table with Russian aristocrats and violinist Jascha Heifetz and saw Julian and his buddies kick over a lamp and generally behave like ruffians.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
Giveaway: This event included the book club’s first book giveaway, made possible with a donation from the estate of Octavia E. Butler and literary agent Merrilee Heifetz.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2023
Among the pupils there in my class, having scholarships, were Kathleen Parlow, Elman, Zimbalist, Heifetz and Seidel.
From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Martens, Frederick Herman
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