As a pianist, he became familiar on the new-music scene.

He teaches conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has long been active on the new-music scene.

Mr. Kaiser is a veteran guitarist on the new-music scene.

"I think people get tired of the predictable, and if there's some vitality in the new-music scene, they're drawn to it," Mr. Sharp said.

Instead he became active in New York's new-music scene.

Bob was less involved with the new-music scene than anybody else I worked with.

Like the new-music scene everywhere else, the Warsaw Autumn has become more eclectic and less in thrall to modernism.

He has done all that, with considerable success, and his versatility and brilliant technique have made him a valuable player on the new-music scene as well.

The absence of a dominant style in art-music composition gives the new-music scene an astonishing fluidity.

THERE is always a danger of provincialism on the new-music scene.