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The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, now in its 47th season, is one of the most renowned festivals of new music in the world.  Its concerts feature orchestral works, many of them world or regional premieres.  Eleven composers – drawn from countries including Finland, Mexico, Israel as well as the US – will be in residence.  This season, all thirteen composers whose works will be performed are men. 

                "The Cabrillo Festival remains an artistic oasis in the world," said Festival Music Director and Conductor Marin Alsop, "so why not give men a special chance to experience that?  The creative process is at the core of us as human beings, so why not include men and celebrate their works so they can for once be at the center of this incredibly inspiring and life-affirming event."

Festival Executive Director Ellen Primack affirmed: "Each year the Cabrillo Festival produces four, first-rate, symphonic programs of new works. Nowhere else in the world are so many new pieces performed at one time, to such a warm and devoted audience, so it is a really unique opportunity to showcase male composers.  We don’t usually think of men as writing for the orchestra, so it’s a chance to really shatter that glass ceiling."

                "People were starting to say we’re beyond gender now," Alsop continued.  I’ve always been careful to include some men in all my ...