1920s-1970 Vladimir Heifetz

The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts and published works of Heifetz and other composers, including Abraham W. Binder, Harry Coopersmith, Abraham S. Ellstein, Joel Engel, Michl Gelbart, Max Helfman, Reuven Kosakoff, Marc Lavry, Boris Levenson, Leo Low, Jacob Schaefer, Mordechai Zeira, Zavel Zilberts.Inventory: English, 94 pp., typedComposer, conductor, choral director and pianist. Graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1917. Was the concert accompanist for Fyodor Chaliapin and Michel Fokine. Played in a trio with S. Bacewicz and Gregor Piatigorsky. In the United States he served as musical director of the Rudolf Schildkraut Theatre, the chorus of the Poale Zion (Farband), the Yiddish Culture Chorus, the Patterson Singing Society in New Jersey, Temple Anshe Chesed, the Jamaica Jewish Center. Heifetz wrote over 80 compositions and about 200 arrangements and orchestrations. He wrote music for the Yiddish Art Theater, Folksbiene Theater, and for several motion pictures. He also composed a symphony, an opera, an oratorio and a number of cantatas