Kryštof Cejp’s Reviews > The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century > Status Update

"People today think of Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps as"modern," [...] though it was premiered in . . . 1913. The present concept of contemporary music is nearly a century old. By contrast, in England in the late eighteenth century, music that had been around for twenty years was performed in a series known as "antient music".