91.   It was also clear how often Robbins and Balanchine used American music.

92.   Its central idea, the impact of American pop music on a marginal people in search of social identity, has definite promise.

93.   Johnson continued to expand his tastes and delved into black American music and singers such as Otis Redding, Nina Simone, and Millie Jackson.

94.   Lacking an indigenous core repertory, American classical music is to this day impossible to frame.

95.   Koussevitzky was not alone in championing new American music even at the time, but he was in an ideal position to affect its fortunes.

96.   Lee is working on a new book about American popular music.

97.   Listeners of all stripes will be drawn to the recordings of Mahler and American music that Bernstein Century has so attractively repackaged.

98.   Louis Armstrong was a master of the trumpet and one of the greatest innovators in American music.

99.   Masur also chafes at the suggestion that he has neglected American music, asserting that as a leading international ensemble the Philharmonic must present an international repertory.

100.   Lomax shunned the mainstream, journeyed down the tributaries of tributaries that led to the heart of wild country where he hoped to find true American music.