81.   Is it possible that American vocal music is finally coming into its own?

82.   Indeed, the contemporary repertory, particularly American music, has been an increasingly important part of the programming mix at Bridgehampton.

83.   It is American music.

84.   It is frankly indebted to American popular music.

85.   It is greatly enhanced by an evocative soundtrack of European and American music.

86.   It captures the boisterous sound of live zydeco, retaining the sort of polyrhythmic freedom that black American music used to have.

87.   It has been an honorable custodian of American popular music.

88.   It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the role these companies filled in the development of the postwar American music industry.

89.   It would be hard to think of any contemporary American music more important than this.

90.   It was also a chance to check up on the orchestra, now in its second season under its young American music director Andrew Litton.