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Cedille's Dan Hickey interviews soprano and composer Patrice Michaels
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Song (Notorious RBG)
1 The Long View: A Portrait - Prologue: Foresight  
2 II. Celia: An Imagined Letter from 1949  
3 III. Advice from Morris  
4 IV. On Working Together  
5 V. Anita's Story  
6 VI. New York, 1961  
7 VII. The Elevator Thief  
8 VIII. Dissenter of de Universe: Five Opinions and a Comment  
9 IX. Epilogue: The Long View, Questions Answered  
10 Lori Laitman: Wider than the Sky  
11 Vivian Fung: Pot Roast a La RBG  
12 Stacy Garrop: My Dearest Ruth  
13 Derrick Wang: You Are Searching in Vain for a Bright-Line Solution, from Scalia/Ginsburg  
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Notorious RBG in Song, available June 8, 2018, features works by five contemporary American composers celebrating Justice Ginsburg's family and professional life. These include Michaels' THE LONG VIEW: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs; Lori Laitman's "Wider than the Sky"; Vivian Fung's "Pot Roast à La RBG"; Stacy Garrop's "My Dearest Ruth"; and Derrick Wang's "You Are Searching in Vain for a Bright-Line Solution." All but two of the songs - "Anita's Story," now incorporated into Michaels' song cycle, and "Wider than the Sky" - are world-premiere recordings (Cedille Records CDR 90000 178).

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    Posted At: October 18, 2018 12:00 AM

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    Posted At: September 1, 2018 12:00 AM

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  • CapRadio - Sound Advice: Notorious RBG with Kevin Doherty
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  • Notorious RBG in Song is KUSC: Download of the Week
    Posted At: July 11, 2018 12:00 AM

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  • 95.5KHFM: Albuquerque celebrates Notorious RBG in Song
    Posted At: July 11, 2018 12:00 AM

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  • In honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 25 years on the US Supreme Court, Cedille Records launches - Notorious RBG in Song / OPERAWiRE
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  • 'Notorious RBG in Song' celebrates Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Classical 101
    Posted At: July 3, 2018 12:00 AM

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  • Patrice Michaels and James Ginsburg discuss 'Notorious RBG in Song' with 89.3WQED: Pittsburgh
    Posted At: June 29, 2018 12:00 AM

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  • A musical tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Notorious RBG in Song / KPR
    Posted At: June 29, 2018 12:00 AM

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg celebrates 25 years on the Supreme Court this year. She's an avid classical music fan, even appearing onstage in opera productions. Her son, James Ginsburg, founded Cedille Records, which has released an album, Notorious RBG in Song. It refers to the justice's pop culture moniker, and features songs written and performed by his wife, Patrice Michaels. Michael Keelan ta...
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  • Patrice Michaels and Jim Ginsburg discuss 'Notorious RBG in Song' once again with Classical Radio
    Posted At: June 27, 2018 12:00 AM

    Soprano Patrice Michaels and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang offer a collection of songs saluting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her completion of 25 years on the high court on Notorious RBG in Song, a new album from Cedille Records. A longtime crusader for equal rights, Ginsburg has become a pop-culture icon known to her fans as "Notorious RBG," a wry nod to the late rap artist The Notorious ...
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  • Notorious RBG in Song is IPR: Classical New Release
    Posted At: June 27, 2018 12:00 AM

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg celebrated 25 years on the United States Supreme Court this year. A new album on the Cedille label is a tribute to Ginsburg's personal and professional life. The album "Notorious RBG in Song" includes art songs by five contemprary American composers. The music is performed by soprano Patrice Michaels and pianist Kuo-Hao Huang. Michaels also composed a song cycle on the album, "The...
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  • Jim Ginsburg and Patrice Michaels discuss 'Notorious RBG' with 88.9KUCI: Irvine
    Posted At: June 26, 2018 12:00 AM

    Soprano Patrice Michaels and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang offer a collection of songs saluting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her completion of 25 years on the high court on Notorious RBG in Song, a new album from Cedille Records. Album illuminates the jurist's personal and professional life in a musical tribute. A longtime crusader for equal rights, Ginsburg has become a pop-culture ic...
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  • RBG wanted to be a singer. 'Notorious' album celebrates her life / Washington Post
    Posted At: June 24, 2018 12:00 AM

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has often said, in interviews, that she would have loved to have been an opera singer. She has certainly become a fixture at many opera houses around the country: She is often spotted in the audience; she sometimes presides as an emcee in evenings of arias and excerpts titled "Justice at the Opera"; and, occasionally, she's even taken the stage herself - in a small role in "Da...
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  • Patrice Michaels and Jim Ginsburg discuss 'Notorious RBG in Song' with Classical Radio
    Posted At: June 18, 2018 12:00 AM

    Soprano Patrice Michaels and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang offer a collection of songs saluting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her completion of 25 years on the high court on Notorious RBG in Song, a new album from Cedille Records. A longtime crusader for equal rights, Ginsburg has become a pop-culture icon known to her fans as "Notorious RBG," a wry nod to the late rap artist The Notorious ...
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  • Song from Derrick Wang's opera - Scalia/Ginsburg featured on 'Notorious RBG in Song' / The Peabody Post
    Posted At: June 15, 2018 12:00 AM

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  • RBG, the film and the woman - both compelling / Minneapolis Star Tribune
    Posted At: April 10, 2018 12:00 AM

    In filmmaking - and film festivals - timing is everything. Just ask Susan Smoluchowski, executive director of the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, or Betsy West, co-director of "RBG" - a documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice-turned-unlikely-pop-culture-icon - that will open the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival on April 12. Neither could have anticipated tha...
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