21.   A few companies have tried to help, like Eastgate Systems in Watertown, Mass., which produces software for hypertext writing and publishes new works.

22.   A creative group by Soviet standards, it gave Malakhov a chance to do new works as well as the classics.

23.   A new works festival might be nice someday, but he cautioned that those things take time.

24.   A showcase for new works, with Janie Geiser and Dan Hurlin as curators.

25.   According to artistic director Ricardo Khan, Crossroads is developing co-ops with film companies, who will commission and develop new theatrical works.

26.   Administrators, conductors and the operatically curious public can attend free readings and sample a roster of new works.

27.   Alfaro is co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative at the Taper, where he produces new works and nurtures emerging writers.

28.   But each concentrated on new works, not stars, and serious music, usually distinguished, often commissioned.

29.   But he does drop in occasionally to create new works and restage old ones for major American ballet companies.

30.   But it will not be enough for Maazel simply to conduct new works now and then.