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Added, Mazzoli herself is outspoken about the climate of gender discrimination and secrecy about sexual harassment that persists in classical music. „I’m shocked that we’re still at this place. I thought when I started my undergrad that by the time I got to be 37 years old, things would have dramatically changed,“ she said in a National Sawdust Log interview. „I also feel pissed off that I had to wait until I was 37 to really feel like I had agency, that I was able to say something about what’s going on. I think that the numbers, the statistics of women in classical music. People are always asking me, ‚Oh, what have you experienced? What horrible things have happened to you?‘ And I’m like, ‚The statistics are the horrible thing.'“
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