sentences:  San Francisco followed in 1981, Chicago in 1982, Washington, D.C. in 1983, Hartford, Connecticut in 1984, Los Angeles in 1985, Houston in 1986, Philadelphia in 1987, Miami in 1988, returning to New York in 1989 and ending in Montreal in 1990.The festival always had workshop components and provided many points of contact between often a curious public and new musical creation.But as a self-propelled machine, it kept growing to try to "represent" the vastly growing varieties of expression taking birth with new technologies and reassessments of the general music culture, and to do so it had to grow financially as well.