Wang / Huang - Notorious RBG in Song - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Soprano Patrice Michaels, Incha formidable interpretative talentInch (The New Yorker), and collaborative pianist extraordinaire Kuang-Hao Huang offer Notorious RBG in Song, an album of world-premiere recordings saluting the life and work of legal pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg in celebration of her completion of 25 years on the United States Supreme Court. Ginsburg, a longtime crusader for equal rights, has become a pop culture icon known as InchNotorious RBG.Inch Michaels, a vocalist of Inchspectacular and diverse giftsInch (Journal of Singing) is also a gifted composer. Her nine-song cycle, 'The Long View', illuminates key aspects of Justice Ginsburg's personal and professional life through letters, remembrances, conversations, and even Court opinions. The album concludes with songs by American composer Stacy Garrop, winner of many prestigious awards and commissions; JUNO Award-winning Canadian composer Vivian Fung; prolific art-song composer Lori Laitman; and an aria from Derrick Wang's new comic opera, Scalia/Ginsburg. American composer Stacy Garrop, recipient of many prestigious awards and commissions, based her deeply moving InchMy Dearest RuthInch on the farewell love letter the Justice's husband, Georgetown University law professor Martin Ginsburg, wrote shortly before his death in 2010. The aria InchYou are Searching in Vain for a Bright-Line Solution,Inch from Derrick Wang's opera Scalia/Ginsburg, which captured widespread media attention, crystallizes Justice Ginsburg's views on interpreting the U.S. Constitution. JUNO Award-winning Canadian composer Vivian Fung's humorous InchPot Roast à la RBGInch provides directions for preparing the beef dish, using Justice Ginsburg's own words as related in the text by daughter Jane Ginsburg. Prolific art-song composer Lori Laitman's setting of the Emily Dickinson poem InchWider than the SkyInch wasn't written with Ginsbu