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Filmmaker Peter Rosen on Key Assets of Jascha Heifetz Film

Clip: 04/16/2015 | 5m 34s

Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen describes his three key assets for making the documentary Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler: the home movies by Heifetz that Rosen discovered; a set provided by Heifetz's reconstructed music studio; and the person of musician Ayke Agus, Heifetz's student, accompanist and longtime companion.

Aired: 04/16/15

Rating: NR

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