“Estrellita” a beautiful Mexican Serenade written in 1912 by composer Manuel Ponce, arranged by violinist Jascha Heifetz in 1923. A popular song in it's native land, as a young man Heifetz first heard it while dining in a cafe in Mexico City the day before his first concert in the capital. He loved the song so much he spent all that night arranging it for violin and piano to perform at his debut in honor of his host country. It became a world famous hit, and has remained a favorite encore piece to this day. I've always enjoyed the romantic beauty of "My Little Star", Eduardo

@pneron2032

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@annacoribioanna

2 жыл бұрын

😍 thank you for this story! so nice to know how things come about

@annacoribioanna

2 жыл бұрын

English Lyrics ☺ for the song he heard "Little star from the distant sky That watches my pain That knows my suffering Come down and tell me if she likes me a little Because I can't live without her love You are, Little star, my beacon of love You know that I will soon die Come down and tell me if she likes me a little Because I can't live without her love"

@alna9681

Жыл бұрын

Ok but how did he arrange and learn this all in one night did he sleep 😂

@kkal9915

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your insight and information!

This is an excerpt from the film, "They Shall Have Music" for anyone that was wondering.

@shingosan831

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) !

@alicealfons9023

5 жыл бұрын

Ya thanks!

@NellieKAdaba

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@robertbrawley5048

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was wondering. Thank you

So much for Heifetz being cold. This is marvelously heart on sleeve, as it should be.

his use of crescendo and decrescendo whenever he wants is amazing, its like watching fire burn

@nekocafe8420

11 ай бұрын

Diminuendo*

Manuel María Ponce, immortal mexican composer, interpreted by one of the greatest ever!

This piece has never been played more beautifully. Heifetz was superb.

@nataliekriegler9329

2 ай бұрын

Yes he was…totally & completely. I was devastated when he died and also had an almost opportunity to study @ UCLA at one of his 6 week masterclasses but wasn’t well and was unable to prepare a daunting tape in summer of 1981 consisting of ( including) Caprice 17, Paganini…but my initial app,ication went through and he was interested in me…….biggest regret not being able to follow through and participate/study there with him. He’s the greatest

@Mickju

2 ай бұрын

That's unfortunate that you missed an opportunity to study with him. A friend of mine at Eastman got to study with him in the 70s and loved him. The first violin recording I ever bought was Heifetz playing Brahms in the late 50s/early 60s when I was in High School. I was sold on him from then on. I regret never hearing him live. @@nataliekriegler9329

in his prime heifetz' bowing was hypnotic.

When I found the sheet music to this arrangement I thought I died and went to heaven. What a beautiful piece of music and a terrific performance.

@NellieKAdaba

2 жыл бұрын

I have a piano 🎹 with the sheet music 🎼 too.

I've watched this video like crayzy for years. Never get tired of it.

I'm pretty sure that those said Heifetz is cold cannot play this piece more warm than him!

@nickcarroll8565

5 ай бұрын

People tend to say the playing is more warm if the facial expressions match 🙄. If people only listen to Heifetz by recording instead of watching his face I guarantee they’d have a different opinion.

I heard this played by many violinist, i would have to say, Jascha owns this gem.

@OnreleTehMusicPlayer

8 жыл бұрын

He did compose this arrangement lol

@papa_mia4495

6 жыл бұрын

He literally does.

Agree with puccinifan below: so much for Heifetz being cold. This is the closest thing to a human voice singing I’ve ever heard from a violinist I think. What a player!

he has such a distinct way of playing it's amazing.

No matter what Heifetz does technically it is to create great music making

My soul... It melted..

Estrellita is a song English Lyrics ☺ "Little star from the distant sky That watches my pain That knows my suffering Come down and tell me if she likes me a little Because I can't live without her love You are, Little star, my beacon of love You know that I will soon die Come down and tell me if she likes me a little Because I can't live without her love"

Ninguém até hoje superou o Jascha Heiftez na arte de tocar um violino. O cara é o melhor dos melhores.👏👌👍💎

I have been looking for the name of this song for thirty years. OMG! I have never heard anything so beautiful. Thank you for posting.

The Best🎻👌

La historia cuenta que Mr. Heifetz visitó México y escuchó ese tema del compositor M. Ponce y le gustó tanto que hizo una adaptación para piano y violín. El maestro Jascha Heifetz pueden ver más de él en el documental "El violinista de Dios".

Always dig these "German Expression(istic)" close-ups of the audience's enraptured response to such music that melts the heart.

mi ídolo Heifetz😃

I love his Estrellita ssssssso mmmmmmmuch , especially articulation=bowing!

This is just excellent.

He was playing sync to the recording for the movie. He told to his students You can notice that the violin is not the usual Guarneri but a practice fiddle.

Hats off to a genius!!)) Thank you,Mr.Heifetz!)

POR FAVOR ESTA PRECIOSA MELODIA ES DEL MAESTRO MEXICANO ¡ MANUEL M. PONCE ! DEBEN RECONOCER LOS CREDITOS

Bravo!! So Beautiful!

LOVE YOU JASCHA

A wonderful piece of music! So sincere...

Found this after listening to Ray Chen's rendition, which is very, very nice too and available on KZread too. I love almost everything Heifetz plays including this piece! And of course Heifetz would arrange this piece in F sharp major, instead of something simpler :-) I can just imagine Heifetz saying this to his students: "As warm-up for this morning, let's start with something simple.. let's start with fingered octaves and tenths in F sharp major. Oh, don't just do two octaves, let's do three if your fingerboard's long enough."

@untonsured

4 жыл бұрын

I think he put it in that key so it would be softer like velvet.

@Mickju

4 жыл бұрын

Ray Chen plays this beautifully, but Heifetz is still the master.

@srinitaaigaura

3 жыл бұрын

How about G flat minor?

@fluteteatime

2 жыл бұрын

being an amateur flutist i tried this piece in f major, and while the piece still sounds sweet in f major too, i saw why heifetz arranged it in f sharp major. it just sounds so much more delicate and buoyant in f sharp major. the master knew what he wanted....

@oldgoat5

2 жыл бұрын

He said he used F# to remove the open string resonances, to sound more like a voice.

Simply the best!

Perfect! Genius

I don't listen as a violinist (because I am not) but as a musician to mr Heifetz. Indeed it is very lyrical and also perfect. I hear/feel fire as lava under the ground when he is taken away by the music and yet keeps his aristocratic command. But the word that arises in all his performances in my head is: nobelness. I myself am not touched by his baroque renditions but when it comes to Saint-Saën's piece it is incredible in the most good sence of the word.

Heifetz wrote this transcription of Estrellita. The off-camera pianist is Theodore Saidenberg, who occasionally filled in for Emanuel Bey, and later Brooks Smith. Saidenberg also accompanied several other artists and was an accomplished performer in his own right. In later years, he was a conductor and also a musical director for many Broadway plays, including the 1976 revival of "My Fair Lady."

@tchaffman

7 жыл бұрын

+Tom Barrister Theodore Saidenberg is my Great Grandfather. Would love to research more into his life and find more of his recordings. Any suggestions on where to look? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

@TomBarrister

7 жыл бұрын

I would recommend using a search engine (Google) and going from there. He's mentioned a few times on Amazon in various recordings, and you might also check Naxos. I was told that he worked at the Band Box in Los Angeles in the 1940's before moving to New York. His brother Daniel was also a conductor, as well as a cellist.

@tchaffman

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Barrister Thank you. Greatly appreciate it!

@alexsaldarriaga8318

3 жыл бұрын

@@tchaffman Teddy Saidenberg collaborated with violinist Louis Gabowitz in South Florida during the 1960s and 1970s. Too bad I never met either of them. I was just a child back then. I heard stories about them from someone who is now long gone.

@tchaffman

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexsaldarriaga8318 That's awesome, I've listened to Louis Gabowitz's violin recordings and I didn't know they collaborated. Thanks for sharing!

De México 🇲🇽 para el mundo Manuel. M. Ponce autor de Estrellita

E pensare che Ponce da questa sua composizione conosciuta in tutto il mondo non prese neanche un soldo! Forse i capelli bianchi per questo!

CORREN LÁGRIMAS DE EMOCIÓN POR MIS MEJILLAS AL ESCUCHAR AL MAESTRO HEIFETZ

37 years old J.Heifetz !!!

Magnificent 😮😮

The finer details of bowing, like that rotation onto flat hair for the powerful last passage, and the little wrist/fingers retake @2:46 ...I don't think that kind of stuff can be taught. In watching great artists, it always seems like the music leads them to express their already amazing technique instinctively. Note: never practice one (Musicality or Technique) without the other!

@hangzheng

9 жыл бұрын

In my very limited communication with masters, I'm quite sure it's endless practice and exploration of physical and instrument limits that leads to this

@misc.e1057

9 жыл бұрын

That is essentially what I mean by expressing their technique "instinctively." They refine their skills through endless experimentation (Milstein is a perfect example) and know how apply them for maximum effect. I didn't mean the music literally leads them to the technique; that would be pretty misguided. My point, really, was that there is often an obsession with formalism in today's players--they are less likely to take musical risks, it seems. The same experimentation and limit testing that is done with the instrument can be done with the music. Perhaps I would've been better served by saying that great masters have musical insight that matches their technical prowess, and the two are in perfect harmony.

@philnewton3096

4 жыл бұрын

Couldnt agree more -Listening is teaching oneself -Did T Adorno say "close all conservatoires" too much instruction in schools and grades a nonsense.

@alexpate8626

4 жыл бұрын

phil newton dropping an Adorno reference in a Heifetz video. The internet needs more of that, well done!

@alexsaldarriaga8318

3 жыл бұрын

Your comment is one of the best and most insightful I’ve ever read on KZread or anywhere else. I completely agree that one should never separate the music from the technique. You are obviously a fine violinist, violin teacher, or violin cognoscenti. My hat’s off to you!

Yes; but the beautiful masterpiece by Manuel Ponce is just adorable even on a video in a video. Salute

how could anyone dislike this...

Thanks for uploaded! Thank you Mr.Heifetz 😍

Woooow que bella interpretación de "Estrellita" de Manuel M. Ponce. Haré una película.

Beautiful pieces..

A touching piece that one can hardly forget, thanks for the upload.

A video in a video in a video.

@qalaphyll

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

Ponce-Heifetz: Estrellita

Excellent arrangement and video for this marvelous piece of the Mexican composer Manuel Maria Ponce!

Bravooo...

I love!

....GRACIAS.....PAISANO......!

me hace llorarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr esta obraaa me encanta

Спасибо! 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

A 3-minute love letter written with a bow and strings by Jascha Heifetz hmmmmm

@arazaratsyan6478

5 жыл бұрын

Except it was written by Ponce and Heifetz is more like the person reading it.

@jeanparke9373

4 жыл бұрын

@@arazaratsyan6478 haha sure

@MARTIN201199

3 жыл бұрын

Mexican composer Manuel Ma. Ponce is the author of this melancholic melody

@user-hl3pc5ts6m

3 жыл бұрын

I love his Estrellita sssssssssso mmmmmmmuch yes!

Viva Mexico...!

I wish the description that states he was well-known for interpretations of Paganini was accurate. He is actually known to have recorded remarkably few of Paganini's pieces. He did 3 caprices, moto perpetuoto and maybe a couple others. He used to play I Palpiti as an encore the odd time as well. I would kill to have seen that!

@pneron2032

2 жыл бұрын

He studied all the caprices with Auer, as Kopytova's excellent biography says. In fact, his early repertoire in Russia (which included the Paganini concerto in D) was much richer than his later work.

This is a Victrola 78 shellac 1332-A (on the other side, 1332-B, "Valse Bluette" of Drigo).

love

転調が心憎い😍 BRAVO❣️

It's Jascha Heiception!!

Esplêndidos,,que som será stradivario,,,podia voltar nas ruas os ensaio povão ficariam felizes. Brs m.m.,sp pvott.

That is a ridiculously touching piece. Heifetz totally hits the spot. And the piano accompaniment is so embellished, in the Godowsky style almost. Does anyone have a piano solo score to share?

@nekocafe8420

Жыл бұрын

I have the piano accompainment of this arrangement

look at that posture...

Demasiado

Galya my sacred treasure goose, dreaming of you right now... 143

Does anyone know how to get the exact recording used in this film without the film part? (Just the music)

I would like to think M.Ponce surely made Estrellita for Jascha Heifetz. (soon be 91 yrs. Japanese) We have only to ask him how to play Estrellita.

where is this clip an excerpt from?

2:30 Literally me when I watch his recordings.

Who was the little girl with the violin near the end?

@aaronlaw97 Whoa, inception.

This is interesting I see his bow start to go near the fingerboard when it is near the tip. Is this proper technique because I alwaygs hear people say that heifetz is the standard of perfection.

@sashaallan855

5 жыл бұрын

You will see this with many great violinists

@romanlytwyniw3186

5 жыл бұрын

It allows you to change the bow more smoothly at the tip as keeping the bow completely straight creates rigidity

@romanlytwyniw3186

5 жыл бұрын

It allows you to change the bow more smoothly at the tip as keeping the bow completely straight creates rigidity

vorrei questo film in italiano

name of the movie??

@sashaclarino9022

3 жыл бұрын

'They Shall Have Music"

It's genuinely impressive how Heifetz took this simple but beautiful fusion of classical and Mexican folk music and turned it into generic european mush. Piano part sounds like someone heard Estrellita once, tried playing it for the first time on stage, fell asleep from boring themselves, woke up halfway through and forgot what key they were playing in.

What’s moves name？

@tessrosed

2 жыл бұрын

They Shall Have Music

이거 싫어요 누른사람 실화냐...?너무잘해서 싫어요 눌렀나...?

inception

vorrei vedere questo film in italiano

@beatrizsusanadubson8849

7 жыл бұрын

ANCHÍO

1:51 A bit of the soft focus that filmmakers used to love for moments of tender female emotion. In addition to giving an ethereal look, perhaps it was suggestive of vision through tears. (See "gaussian girl" entry on TVTropes.)

@aaronlaw97 lol

@strawberryxBunny3 False. Videoception.

You're looking for a train...

A mexican composition....

The shall have music is probably the corniest movie I ever seen.

Maybe it’s just me, I never like the eerie vibrato of Heifetz at all...

@sashaclarino9022

3 жыл бұрын

When one young man was looking at Mona Lisa at Museum, he said to his friend, : it does not impress me One lady, heard it,and replied: Mona Lisa impressed so many people, so if it will not impress you, it does not change anything ....

Heifetz wasn't the finest violinist of the 20th century. He is the greatest violinist of all time. Maybe paganini was better. But that's cuz he sold his soul to the devil

このハイフェッツによる編曲は良くないと思います。この楽譜は購入しましたが、弾きたくないです。他の奏者もよくこの楽譜を使って演奏していることが多いですが、もっと別の編曲があるといいと思います。次のもののバイオリン版が欲しいです。このチェロの演奏は素晴らしいです。ハイフェッツの演奏は感動できません。宮田 大 Dai Miyata/ポンセ：エストレリータ Ponce-Estrellita　 kzread.info/dash/bejne/g4ZpkrGtiZrMmLw.html