Strickland presented a total of 28 European concerts of American works by 1957.

Since 2005, Juventas has regularly performed concerts of new works, including many premieres.

For seven years the center has presented annual concerts of new works involving up-to-date computer and technological resources.

In return, the audience took revenge a few weeks later in the next concert of contemporary works there.

It was a concert of disparate but emotionally related works unlike any I had heard before.

The festival opened last Friday with a bracing concert of works for large chamber ensembles.

It did not seem that way at Saturday's concert of 20th-century works.

Instead she has started giving concerts of contemporary works and charging only half her fee to persuade concert presenters to take a chance.

Next weekend, several prominent musicians and a storyteller will give a concert of new works inspired by the valley.

Next Sunday afternoon these 13 musicians will play a free concert of works for brass and percussion.