During this time and beyond, he was the undisputed king against whom all other violinists would measure themselves. His October 1917 debut at Carnegie Hall was a watershed moment, elevating his name to new heights and kick-starting a career that would last half a century. There’s much discussion around Heifetz’s performance style. Heifetz had studied with Leopold Auer, and was the first Russian violinist to make such a far-reaching impact in the 20th Century. The tour of twenty-two countries began in California and ended in South Africa, taking in such exotic locations on the way as Java, Sumatra, India and Egypt. This was all a prelude to the world tour of 1931/2. In 1925/26 the pair toured Europe, and in 1927 they ventured further afield, calling at China and the Philippines. The position was initially only agreed for one year, but Achron remained in post for ten. In 1923, Isidor Achron became his accompanist for a trip to Japan and China.
He had visited Australia and New Zealand between May and August in 1921 and this marked the start of several world tours. It would be the violinist’s last global circumnavigation he was thirty-one years old. The country was the last stop on his fourth international tour, lasting over ten months, in which he visited twenty-two countries in all. This recent publication from the Pendragon Press documents for the first time Jascha Heifetz’s one-and-only tour of South Africa in 1932. Jascha Heifetz in South Africa by Michael Brittan
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