Pacifica Quartet, eighth blackbird to perform works of first composer to receive UChicago honorary degree
Excerpt from The University of Chicago News, Feb. 13, 2012
By Jessica Tobacman
"Composer Shulamit Ran describes the music of Russian composer Sophia Gubaidulina as having the power to stop time and put the listener in another world. “She is a legendary and very great composer of our time,” says Ran, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Composition and artistic director of the University of Chicago’s Contempo ensemble.
In June 2011, the University of Chicago presented Gubaidulina with an honorary degree, the first ever given to a composer." (read more)
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