No elder statesmen performed, although there was a balance between younger performers like the cellist Earl Lee, a graduate student at the Juilliard School, and more established string players like the violinists Colin Jacobsen and Soovin Kim.
But younger performers came to see his antics as offensive.
She also makes booking younger performers a priority.
Lewis also was noted for promoting jazz among younger performers.
"The younger performers and me learned from her," he said.
Nowadays, however, she said, some younger performers think only of stardom.
But the freedoms practiced by some younger performers arouse his suspicion.
One point was to show Mr. Reich's tremendous influence on younger performers and composers.
The long-term goal, says Harvey, is to become the company's directors and employ younger performers.
Accordingly, he continued to enjoy the respect of both his peers and generations of younger performers.
But since then, few younger performers have seemed interested in addressing political issues on stage.
