Yes he knows that, what he means is that you must be a master to play that king of bad so easily and actually go on with the piece. He is serious about the shit he hears every day and is tired of correcting. As well as he is serious about playing outstanding music. You can see his expression on masterclass when a "wrong" sound is coming of the violin, anything out of order. Even by his own master class, he has the same exact expressions when HE makes mistakes too (must look hard to actually hear). This was his 5 minutes expressing that and humouring his students in the process. The "gods fiddler" was a perfectionist with a bad appetite for anything that doesn't sounds just spot on. Whatch his performances and look for changes in expression. Then pause and hear that part again, you will find that something isn't JUST right.AND HE KNOWS IT,you can see he does!! And what wouldn't he give to go back in time and correct it. That is both the reason he was so good, and why he was named the gods fiddler. And the little footage we have from him is a view to behold and listen to, even with the mediocre audio of the time.
Yes, this was a joke to amuse a master class. Do you think his accompanist, much less students would be cackling like this to his face if it wasn't intentional?
"Heifetz gets unconfident while shredding for laughing students" -- not at all! It is a satire on how many beginning students sound in this concerto. What is amazing that he is able to sound so hysterically bad - it is actually very hard to do on purpose! Brilliant satire.
ViolinClass That's what I figured. Lots of those mistakes sounded like they were done purposefully... That would be incredibly difficult to do because you're doing everything you were taught not to do. He must have an excellent sense of humor to play tricks like this.
@@mrsblue9509 _ Is it your idea that he was making fun of a particular student? I don't think so. if he was, I doubt if anyone knew who it was. So maybe you are the one who lacks humor.
3:39 Making the chromatic crawl out of tune - he nailed it. But the octave itself, the relationship between the fingers is pretty much perfect. Mr. Heifetz feigned defects well, but was never capable of playing truly out of tune. You can't conceal perfection.
Context: "Here's an imitation of an audition I had to hear. It's an exaggeration, but not too much....not too much.." The last few words are what we hear in this video.
My grandpa studied under him for a year in his master class. He said this is an example of how funny Heifetz was, not Heifetz screwing up. He was just about flawless till he died.
One of my favorite things about violin is that"the better I get the worse I can sound" because I understand better how to kill the sound. I'm sure lots of other violinists would agree with me
Miss Orange Hi, I think David Garrett is a great violinist, he's one of the best in my opinion. Could you explain or show me a video or recording where he plays sloppy and slides wrong?
Jesse Ji Why do you think I'm not chilled? It's the first time I've heard someone saying Garrett is a mediocre violinist, so I asked why. Apparently no reason.
Pointing out the errors he probably heard all day from his students. It's a good way to teach, with laughter and examples. For such a perfectionist, at the end of a teaching session he probably had to play a piece beautifully just to restore his equilibrium.
This is purely a joke performance. Probably to highlight bad playing? He's probably heard it all, but this was hilarious! His interpretation of a "butchered" performance.
The title and subtitle is misleading. This is obviously a caricature, he laughs before starting. The violist William Primrose, who played with him, tells that Heifetz used to play jokes like this to amuse his friends (and students, like in this case). He is great even in his acting as a "great soloist"!
thank you very much! It's so incredible to see and hear this master of all times play like a debutant! With a big humor, what an incredible man he was!
i love the nose wipe at 3:58. classic. the only problem with this is that he's using too much bow. an actual student nervous enough and untalented enough to play like this would be using 4 inches in the middle of the bow. still, probably the funniest thing i've ever seen. you have to be an experienced violinist to get it.
The greatest of them all deliberately playing badly for the benefit of these students, who just love it. He does this so impassively that it makes this all the more funnier and proves he had a wonderful sense of humor.
Peter Rabitt heavenly music from my fav classic composer. seriously. and notice I am an amateur violinist, not a pianist. unffortunatelly those pieces are out of my league. way too hard. Anyway, I love to listen to them.
it is amusing that his bow technique is still just amazing and he makes no attempt to correct the bad intonation over longer notes (which anybody who is actually "trying" to play the piece in the first place would*)
@rarecellos He probably never heard such an audition. Heifetz was well-known for doing such parodies, prefacing them with "This is something I had to listen to." He would then stand there deadpan and produce the most annoyingly scratchy music, typical of the sounds that a beginning student would make.
The *best* part is watching Heifetz try not to laugh. He almost lost it a few times there, but I'm thinking that was part of the act. I've been looking for this video for a long time, out of curiosity. Thanks for posting it!
Regardless that the "students" are quite accomplished themselves, there are bound to be nerves in a filmed "master class." I'd say that Heifetz did a marvelous job of offering a break for that stress to remind the students to play, instead of trying to play. That's a master teacher as well as a master musician. There's a Heifetz and Jack Benny skit I found on this page that appropriately had Heifetz playing straight to Benny's gag meistership. Same straight faced persona of a master who knows how to disarn an audience - and work well with others. I'd like to envy that talent but... even that envy is belittling from one with so much less.
You have NO idea how hard it is for someone like him to play like this. He is playing the imperfections of puts-playing with the same perfection he played everything else.
His humor is all the more affecting because he can be so funny and never once smile, himself. Also the imitation is so-o-o much the polar opposite of his own playing, that you cannot help but laugh.
Paul Harris In an interview, Heifetz was asked why he never smiled on stage. His answer was something like this: "There are two reasons for a violinist to smile on stage. One, he is playing brilliantly and completely satisfied with his playing, which I never am. Two, he is playing so poorly, he is thinking about how nice it will be when it is all over, which also never happens with me". The people I have met who knew him said he was warm, witty, and a gentleman.
Unbelievable: you REALLY think that he was insecure??? Do you know what HUMOR is???? This is a very well known way for musicians to joke... Please change your title!
This is a "serious person" do funny things, it will make people laugh more happy. I have burst into tears laughing. He is so gorgeous!!! Although he is making "noise", but the sound is not harsh. Not as irritating as the noise made by beginners. You can listen and laugh all the time.
Hello everybody. I am 10 years old and am learning the violin, too. And Heifetz is a hero for me, I don't know why they all are laughing at him he is doing his best I bet and one should pay respect for that. I hope I can play one day the same way as he does. This simply is beautiful, I can play it a little, too, but not the same good of cause.
You're not getting it. He was hamming it up. He was in total control of EVERYTHING. Sets a good and light mood for the students to be in when things get serious.
Always the straight face on Heifetz, even when being a master comedian! I was surprised he could force himself to do that noise for over 5 minutes to the delight of his students.
I'm a high schooler who plays an instrument at a high level (For example, I've gone to Aspen Music Festival, and if you don't know what that is, you shouldn't be saying that you are an expert on classical music and your instrument) and I certainly know something about the music I play. Heifetz is considered one of the UNDISPUTED greats on the violin. It does sound to me like you are young enough that you argue with anything that disagrees with you viewpoint, even if that viewpoint is wrong.
Heifetz did this to imitate a bad student playing.
yeah i remember his previous dialogue before the video started. What a clickbaiter.
It shows you how buttoned-down Heiftetz was, though. He played that entire thing without cracking a smile.
Valeria Emciuc I think so too
That makes more sense
Kavin Pari This video is a joke, the uploader rightfully assumes we can figure out the actual context.
I can't believe that I can play like Heifetz!!! 😀😀😀😂
I can't. The guy sometimes loses the spirit of this performance and then it is very hard to duplicate.
Me toooooo boo hoo
🤣
This is what happen if you play like heifetz, you mean?
Heifetz was imitating bad playing, he said he was gonna exaggerate his imitation but not too much
this is probably the most difficult performance of his life
Actually this is a joke !!
fans ihsahn, the original commenter knew it was a joke. He meant it was difficult for Heifetz to play so badly in all factors.
Oh !!
Thanks !!
M MT
Have you seen Jack Benny plays Bach with Stern?
@@fansihsahn7973 He is a youtuber and a great violin teacher on uTube
Sound easy, but very difficult to get tone like this. He even maintained his poker face to play the joke.
This proves that Heifetz was as serious about clowning on the violin as he was about making great music on it. And just as effective too!
Fake
Íñigo Aramburu Arnaiz what is?
Yes he knows that, what he means is that you must be a master to play that king of bad so easily and actually go on with the piece. He is serious about the shit he hears every day and is tired of correcting. As well as he is serious about playing outstanding music. You can see his expression on masterclass when a "wrong" sound is coming of the violin, anything out of order. Even by his own master class, he has the same exact expressions when HE makes mistakes too (must look hard to actually hear). This was his 5 minutes expressing that and humouring his students in the process. The "gods fiddler" was a perfectionist with a bad appetite for anything that doesn't sounds just spot on. Whatch his performances and look for changes in expression. Then pause and hear that part again, you will find that something isn't JUST right.AND HE KNOWS IT,you can see he does!! And what wouldn't he give to go back in time and correct it. That is both the reason he was so good, and why he was named the gods fiddler. And the little footage we have from him is a view to behold and listen to, even with the mediocre audio of the time.
Yes, this was a joke to amuse a master class. Do you think his accompanist, much less students would be cackling like this to his face if it wasn't intentional?
Ikr, the title was uncalled for too.
the title was just click bait lol
Phillip Rodgers
alexander markov says : the most scary 2 min of his life was when he was playing for heifetz😃
"Heifetz gets unconfident while shredding for laughing students" -- not at all! It is a satire on how many beginning students sound in this concerto. What is amazing that he is able to sound so hysterically bad - it is actually very hard to do on purpose! Brilliant satire.
this is probably a bit late , but which concerto is it please? I can't even recognize lol
@@ipadm3nfr It is Vieuxtemps No. 4, the first movement :)
@@ViolinClassUSA thanks ! the Vieuxtemps concerto are problably the only I didn't listen too lol
And maybe it would be possible that the title was also a joke? Of course Heifetz would never play like that without it being on purpose...
ViolinClass That's what I figured. Lots of those mistakes sounded like they were done purposefully... That would be incredibly difficult to do because you're doing everything you were taught not to do. He must have an excellent sense of humor to play tricks like this.
How refreshing to discover that Heifetz had a sense of humor. Expert deadpan face throughout!!!
Sense of humor laughing at the student? I would say lack of humor.
@@mrsblue9509 _ Is it your idea that he was making fun of a particular student? I don't think so. if he was, I doubt if anyone knew who it was. So maybe you are the one who lacks humor.
@@monelleny no, what I am is a teacher and I would never use this methods. And probably you are right, this is the sense of humor I try to avoid.
@@mrsblue9509 - I appreciate that his spoof is unkind, Mrs. Blue. If the student were identified, I would be horrified.
@@mrsblue9509who cares? Heifetz is god.
3:39 Making the chromatic crawl out of tune - he nailed it. But the octave itself, the relationship between the fingers is pretty much perfect. Mr. Heifetz feigned defects well, but was never capable of playing truly out of tune. You can't conceal perfection.
One kid is crying in his locker room during this, thinking: am i really that bad?
Damn heifetz would be a savage teacher. With that stern look lol
What i love/hate about this instrument is that it takes an incredible amount of skill to play like he is jokingly.
Thats me on a good day...
I don get it, wy so funny?
cheeldrin, you never have a good day
Chinese characters at beginning!
Karthik Yegnesh Yeah, that is like you, people always laugh at you when you do that in orchestra
haha
thats literally me right now learning this piece. hahaha
Context: "Here's an imitation of an audition I had to hear. It's an exaggeration, but not too much....not too much.." The last few words are what we hear in this video.
This man can even make jokes with that piece of wood
it's called a violin
really
+Manuel Dengis
of course! Don't you know what a violin is?
a million dollar piece of wood
Amazingracer21 I think if he’s seen Heifetz then he probably knows what a violin is and was just being sarcastic.
even his worst is 5 times better than my best what a legend lol
He's playing Vieuxtemps concert no4 - 1st movement
He is imitating a student he heard.
he was making fun of one student who play like that in one masterclass.. he is traying to do it in the most acurrate way posible like the student
Heifetz did not take students who played like that.
@@stephaniehuynh5610 What's your source for this?
Where did you get that information?
I'm convinced that Heifetz does not have the ability to be nervous
Even in pretending to play badly, Heifetz is utterly brilliant.
I like Heifetz because of his personality ;)
Finally I've "met" someone saying this, too! ❤️
My grandpa studied under him for a year in his master class. He said this is an example of how funny Heifetz was, not Heifetz screwing up. He was just about flawless till he died.
One of my favorite things about violin is that"the better I get the worse I can sound" because I understand better how to kill the sound. I'm sure lots of other violinists would agree with me
Heifetz obviously has to make an effort to sound that bad. Those horrible slides remind me of David Garrett.
Miss Orange I know right.
Miss Orange
Hi, I think David Garrett is a great violinist, he's one of the best in my opinion. Could you explain or show me a video or recording where he plays sloppy and slides wrong?
+Alex Martin chill
Jesse Ji Why do you think I'm not chilled?
It's the first time I've heard someone saying Garrett is a mediocre violinist, so I asked why. Apparently no reason.
Miss Orange David Garrett is favorite of some people
he has his kind of playing violin
Guys he foretold the coming of David Garett
lol
Amen bro!!!
Wdym is a decent violinist. And he holds the record for the fastest violinist in the world
@@NahMate Nah, he's a clown and the record is irrelevant
@@OttoKuus irrelevant my ass hole.
Pointing out the errors he probably heard all day from his students. It's a good way to teach, with laughter and examples. For such a perfectionist, at the end of a teaching session he probably had to play a piece beautifully just to restore his equilibrium.
You have to be profoundly great to play that badly. Hysterical. Thanks for the post.
This is purely a joke performance. Probably to highlight bad playing? He's probably heard it all, but this was hilarious! His interpretation of a "butchered" performance.
A master of deadpan delivery too.
The title and subtitle is misleading. This is obviously a caricature, he laughs before starting. The violist William Primrose, who played with him, tells that Heifetz used to play jokes like this to amuse his friends (and students, like in this case). He is great even in his acting as a "great soloist"!
5:13 "This was a joke". Chill guys.
No way Heifetz is nervous...just joking around with his students!!
Now that guy had a sense of humour!
thank you very much! It's so incredible to see and hear this master of all times play like a debutant! With a big humor, what an incredible man he was!
Enjoy this, people! This is the ONLY time you will ever see Jascha Heifetz playing badly!! What a treat! :)
Love, love that poker face...extraordinary man and artist - and such modesty and a great sense of humour!!!
Jack Benny was in this class, no wonder why he was so good at playing bad!
Heifetz impersonates Jack Benny. And very well, I might add.
*Heifetz auditioning for 2set violin* (non colorized)
I have the whole tape......he was showing the students what he hears sometimes from "bad" ones.......Its hilarious. This is what NOT to do !
Is there any chance you kindly upload this video? It would be fascinating to see...
3:57 The closet Heifetz got to a smile his whole life
i love the nose wipe at 3:58. classic. the only problem with this is that he's using too much bow. an actual student nervous enough and untalented enough to play like this would be using 4 inches in the middle of the bow. still, probably the funniest thing i've ever seen. you have to be an experienced violinist to get it.
I disagree. I think that poor students tend to use a full bow, except not quite to the frog, due to a lack of bow control.
Dan Cornelius l
Ya know...this is one of my fav concertos...and idk if I can listen to it the same😂
literally same😂😂😂😂
His serious face while during this comedy is hilarious 😆
The greatest of them all deliberately playing badly for the benefit of these students, who just love it. He does this so impassively that it makes this all the more funnier and proves he had a wonderful sense of humor.
He is not nervous, he is using humour to make a point... And entertain his students....
If you watch the full clip, he says something like "This is what I hear when people audition. Don't do this." before he plays.
this is obviously him trying to make a joke , and doing a good job at that.
hilarious! Like that photo of Einstein sticking out his tongue for all humanity
i see, he was making a musical joke
Peter Rabitt it must be wonderful to play a scherzo by chopin.
Peter Rabitt heavenly music from my fav classic composer. seriously. and notice I am an amateur violinist, not a pianist.
unffortunatelly those pieces are out of my league. way too hard. Anyway, I love to listen to them.
it's part of his teaching! He shows all that can be done wrong! Great posting!
diane dutreux EXACTLY!
NOT nervous here, NO way is he "unconfident," He is the best, an entertainer at heart, with the soul of a pure musician.
Viola masterclass by heifetz
I don't know if I have to laugh or cry. OMG hahahahaha. You, Funny person, Jascha.
An absolute genius in every way--even in this video! I have never seen a violinist make a parody like this! Love it!
it is amusing that his bow technique is still just amazing and he makes no attempt to correct the bad intonation over longer notes (which anybody who is actually "trying" to play the piece in the first place would*)
Goed om zo ne grote Meneer ook eens te zien zot doen!
Volodos deed dat ook vaak.
Maar 't janneke deed dat NOOIT, he...!
;-)
And when i said i could play like Heifetz, no one believed me...
What a gracious send off. I love it!
@rarecellos He probably never heard such an audition. Heifetz was well-known for doing such parodies, prefacing them with "This is something I had to listen to." He would then stand there deadpan and produce the most annoyingly scratchy music, typical of the sounds that a beginning student would make.
it is my first time i saw his smile and make me smile, i like him very much now.
The only true master of the reverse trill
The *best* part is watching Heifetz try not to laugh. He almost lost it a few times there, but I'm thinking that was part of the act. I've been looking for this video for a long time, out of curiosity. Thanks for posting it!
if u play violin u understand how spot on this is
Regardless that the "students" are quite accomplished themselves, there are bound to be nerves in a filmed "master class." I'd say that Heifetz did a marvelous job of offering a break for that stress to remind the students to play, instead of trying to play. That's a master teacher as well as a master musician. There's a Heifetz and Jack Benny skit I found on this page that appropriately had Heifetz playing straight to Benny's gag meistership. Same straight faced persona of a master who knows how to disarn an audience - and work well with others. I'd like to envy that talent but... even that envy is belittling from one with so much less.
That’s actually quite funny! He’s playing it just badly enough to sound like a relative novice.
Even so he did this on purpose, still much better than mine!! -_-
You have NO idea how hard it is for someone like him to play like this. He is playing the imperfections of puts-playing with the same perfection he played everything else.
His humor is all the more affecting because he can be so funny and never once
smile, himself. Also the imitation is so-o-o much the polar opposite of his own playing, that you cannot help but laugh.
Paul Harris In an interview, Heifetz was asked why he never smiled on stage. His answer was something like this: "There are two reasons for a violinist to smile on stage. One, he is playing brilliantly and completely satisfied with his playing, which I never am. Two, he is playing so poorly, he is thinking about how nice it will be when it is all over, which also never happens with me". The people I have met who knew him said he was warm, witty, and a gentleman.
Unbelievable: you REALLY think that he was insecure??? Do you know what HUMOR is???? This is a very well known way for musicians to joke... Please change your title!
The title is a joke..... my god people think for a second.
r/wooosh
But some people are stupid so we must think that someone is the dumb
He should have made a whole album like that.
He still plays better than 90% of musicians like that.
The man has a great sense of humour under the gruff exterior.
the master had such a wikid sense of humour…..this made me really laugh…….just been watching a master class where he makes jokes….
What's amazing here is that he's able to execute mostly any technical fault a student can have.
I love Heifetz whatever he did.
omg this is comedy genius. before Leslie Nielsen in Airplane.... we had deadpan Heifetz :D
This is a "serious person" do funny things, it will make people laugh more happy. I have burst into tears laughing.
He is so gorgeous!!! Although he is making "noise", but the sound is not harsh. Not as irritating as the noise made by beginners. You can listen and laugh all the time.
Too funny...The reaction of the pianist.....OMG.
Hello everybody. I am 10 years old and am learning the violin, too. And Heifetz is a hero for me, I don't know why they all are laughing at him he is doing his best I bet and one should pay respect for that. I hope I can play one day the same way as he does.
This simply is beautiful, I can play it a little, too, but not the same good of cause.
Ingeniously done. An encyclopedic performance of how not to play and what not to do.
*I can't believe that I can play like Heifets*
I'm actually really impressed. I'd image it'd be a technical challenge for a master violinist to even play that poorly.
I think he must have been showing them how Jack Benny played lol...
Heifetz was trying to show the students a bad example. It was really funny, hah
2:02 This is what happens to your vibrato on violin when you play both violin and viola can confirm.
He was always the best on the violin!
Wonderful..just really funny!
The title is so misleading -.-"
Funny this is actually the piece I'm working on now and this is how I feel playing it lol
And what is the piece please?
Madeleine Lachapelle Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 4
You're not getting it. He was hamming it up. He was in total control of EVERYTHING. Sets a good and light mood for the students to be in when things get serious.
Is this Jack Benny? OMG! And he does it so seriously!
He is doing it on purpose to let students know how important details are.
now this is the heifetz I know and love
Always the straight face on Heifetz, even when being a master comedian! I was surprised he could force himself to do that noise for over 5 minutes to the delight of his students.
A time for fun. I love it. The man has a sense of humor.
Immaculate genius of humour in musical portent...
By far the most difficult performance of his life. Imagine trying to keep a straight face and pull that off.
He still better than anyone. Still has his Heifetz Sound!🥀
One hopes nobody takes the description of this very funny take seriously!
the chinese character in the beginning is "is a bit over acting but not too much"
somehow he manages to replicate EXACTLY all my mistakes and mannerisms.
Maybe I should give up
I'm a high schooler who plays an instrument at a high level (For example, I've gone to Aspen Music Festival, and if you don't know what that is, you shouldn't be saying that you are an expert on classical music and your instrument) and I certainly know something about the music I play. Heifetz is considered one of the UNDISPUTED greats on the violin. It does sound to me like you are young enough that you argue with anything that disagrees with you viewpoint, even if that viewpoint is wrong.