“Ruth Bader Ginsburg had already inspired a workout book, a documentary, and a feature film,” writes David Smith in Thursday’s (7/5) Guardian (U.K.). The 85-year-old Supreme Court justice, “her record producer son, and his composer wife got together, [and] the result [was] a classical music album about her life and work,” Notorious RBG in Song. “ ‘It’s pretty fun,’ said Patrice Michaels, 61, who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s daughter-in-law…. Michaels’s nine-song cycle, The Long View, highlights various members of Ginsburg’s family, including … the mischievous antics of her son, James, when he was a boy, as well as some of her celebrated dissenting opinions…. The album contains additional pieces by other composers…. It is produced by Michaels’s husband, James Ginsburg. Now 52, he recalls growing up in a home full of law and music. He was taken to concerts by his parents and was a record collector from the age of seven.…. [James] Ginsburg founded Cedille Records, which makes classical recordings featuring Chicago-area musicians, in 1989. The idea for the album grew organically, based on existing material and Michaels’s renewed desire to compose after a career as a soprano…. James Ginsburg admitted: ‘I love this cottage industry that’s developed around her.’ ”
Posted July 9, 2018
