Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Festival of new music for orchestra by living composers held each August in Santa Cruz, California. Cristian Macelaru, Music Director.
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2026 Poetry Blog – Inspired by the Season (opens the original)
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In honor of Santa Cruz poet and longtime Festival friend Joan Zimmerman, her friend and fellow poet, Ken Weisner, created a living collection of verse inspired by our season’s sounds. You can read some of Joan’s poems on page 57 of our program book and her bio on the next page. As the Cabrillo Festival’s […] The post 2026 Poetry Blog – Inspired by the Season appeared first on Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music .
2026 Lobby Art – Borders of Belonging (opens the original)
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Artist Bio Marsa Greenspan, Artist Marsa Greenspan has been making art and working in community services in Santa Cruz since 2010. She has been volunteering with Cabrillo Festival for the past eight years. See her art at marsajoy.com. Borders of Belonging, 2026 Disassembled American flag, cotton fabrics, acrylic paint, embroidery thread, Australian crystals (Commissioned by […] The post 2026 Lobby Art – Borders of Belonging appeared first on Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music .
The American Orchestral Canon Exists. We’ve Been Building It for 64 Years. (opens the original)
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Cabrillo Festival answers the New York Times question “Has America delivered on its classical music promise? By Bill Richter, Member-at-Large, Cabrillo Festival Board of Directors, and guest contributor Has America delivered on its classical music promise? Joseph Horowitz, assessing classical music in the United States for The New York Times, is not persuaded. In his […] The post The American Orchestral Canon Exists. We’ve Been Building It for 64 Years. appeared first on Cabrillo Festival of Con
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