81.   He employs a full-time creative staff, is quick to hire or promote unheralded talent, and has a keen interest in new music.

82.   He said he has been able to thaw the perception of his new music to some extent.

83.   He had established his credentials as an advocate of new music, both at the Y and at Merkin Concert Hall, where he started the series Music Today.

84.   He made his name first as a pianist, a champion of new music yet an elegant interpreter of the classics.

85.   He wants to discover new music and new stagings.

86.   He was also introduced by his wife to Joe Boyd, the founder of Hannibal records, a label that is no stranger to new music and mixes.

87.   He was best known, however, as a proponent of new music.

88.   He was rehearsing new music with the Plastic People when he became ill again and doctors discovered that the cancer had spread to his brain.

89.   He proposed to Alemany an album that would present new Cuban music to the American and European markets.

90.   He was a vigorous champion of new music all his life.