Essays, articles and reviews from The Musical Heritage Review.

From 40 years of our monthly column "Exploring Music" to essays on a wide range of topics, The Musical Heritage Review took the original concept of an "expanded and improved liner notes" idea and became a magazine that was published 18 times a year for 40 years. From wild esoterica to thoughts about the weather, these essays are all about the joy of exploring music.

  • Exploring Music

    Written for over a decade almost exclusively by editor David M. Greene, "Exploring Music" essays accompanied Musical Heritage Society's Featured Selections. Usually between 5 and 7 essays were written for each edition of The Review, and David occasionally veered WAY off topic and added his own opinions about just about everything.

  • Essays

    Professors and musicians from the East Coast music schools wrote often for The Musical Heritage Review. The new fields of early music on historically informed instrument practice was a favorite topic of discussion (yay and nay), as was the doings of the Metropolitan Opera and...oh yes, record labels, like The Musical Heritage Society.

  • Reviews

    Each edition of The Musical Heritage Review contained hundreds of reviews. We've included many of these reviews on the product pages of the recordings we sell here at the site, but we will also feature many reviews here as well.

EXPLORING MUSIC

Review - Ockeghem: Prince of Music

Review - Ockeghem: Prince of Music

The MHS Staff

A recent performance was described by the critic of the Village Voice as "well nigh perfect."

Review - Ockeghem: Prince of Music

The MHS Staff

A recent performance was described by the critic of the Village Voice as "well nigh perfect."

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A Composer - A Conductor

A Composer - A Conductor

David M. Greene

There is a handsome bronze bust of Robert Schumann in the lovely park that surrounds the opera house in Dusseldorf. That opera house was not there in his day. In fact...

A Composer - A Conductor

David M. Greene

There is a handsome bronze bust of Robert Schumann in the lovely park that surrounds the opera house in Dusseldorf. That opera house was not there in his day. In fact...

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Most Characteristically Schumann

Most Characteristically Schumann

Daniel Nimitz

 Here Schumann is at his most characteristic and, consequently, most successful. 

Most Characteristically Schumann

Daniel Nimitz

 Here Schumann is at his most characteristic and, consequently, most successful. 

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MORTON GOULD TALKS TO THE MUSICAL HERITAGE REVIEW

MORTON GOULD TALKS TO THE MUSICAL HERITAGE REVIEW

Morton Gould

A composer hopefully creates sounds that communicate living experience. Music is the greatest fantasy there is. It's its own thing, it's its own language. It's unlike anything else.

MORTON GOULD TALKS TO THE MUSICAL HERITAGE REVIEW

Morton Gould

A composer hopefully creates sounds that communicate living experience. Music is the greatest fantasy there is. It's its own thing, it's its own language. It's unlike anything else.

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They Sound Good to Me

They Sound Good to Me

David M. Greene

In form, if not in substance, the present record is something of an oddity, present­ing as it does solo piano versions of four stage-and-screen scores. Since transcrip­tions wring the withers...

They Sound Good to Me

David M. Greene

In form, if not in substance, the present record is something of an oddity, present­ing as it does solo piano versions of four stage-and-screen scores. Since transcrip­tions wring the withers...

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Virgil Thomson Talks With Jacquelyn Helin: It's Different And It's Lively--It Works

Virgil Thomson Talks With Jacquelyn Helin: It's...

Jacquelyn Helin

JH: The story of Filling Station is very clas­sic Americana, with the gas station atten­dant as hero ... VT: And the neighborhood, with people coming by and all that. Well,...

Virgil Thomson Talks With Jacquelyn Helin: It's...

Jacquelyn Helin

JH: The story of Filling Station is very clas­sic Americana, with the gas station atten­dant as hero ... VT: And the neighborhood, with people coming by and all that. Well,...

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