This weekend the University of Chicago will give an honorary degree to Sofia Gubaidulina. The university has never before given such a degree to a composer, and it's hard to think of an artist more deserving of the gesture. In February, Contempo will give the world premiere of Gubaidulina's A Pilgrimage of Four, composed at the behest of the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation at the Library of Congress.
