
The UAB awards an honorary doctorate to music director Josep Pons
"I believe in the need for art, always, and particularly now in the times we are living", Josep Pons, music director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, said in his acceptance speech after being awarded an honorary doctorate by the UAB on Wednesday 7 April. His sponsor, Professor Francesc Cortès, explained that the UAB and Josep Pons shared six qualities: a search for quality, commitment with modernity, a constructive spirit, social involvement, international projection, and promotion of youth.