Derrick Wang

Derrick Wang is an American composer and writer.

Derrick Wang
Education
Occupations
  • Composer
  • writer
Notable credit
Websitehttps://www.derrickwang.com

Education

Wang graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College, Harvard University, where he composed works including two musicals for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.[1][2] He received a master's degree from the Yale School of Music.[3]

Work

Wang came to international attention as the composer and librettist of Scalia/Ginsburg, the opera about United States Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.[4] Both justices wrote forewords to Wang's libretto.[5] One chapter of Ginsburg's 2016 book My Own Words consists of excerpts from the libretto,[6][7] narrated and performed by Wang in the audiobook.[8] In 2022, Justice Ginsburg's copy of the Scalia/Ginsburg libretto with a one-page autograph manuscript of her handwritten notes was sold at auction for over US$10,000.[9][10]

Wang teaches music and law at Johns Hopkins University.[11][12]

References
  1. Rosen, Jeffrey (2014-09-28). "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is an American Hero". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  2. Bravin, Jess (2015-07-13). "Justice Ginsburg's Spin on a Supreme Opera, 'Scalia/Ginsburg'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  3. Rosen, Jeffrey (2014-09-28). "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is an American Hero". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  4. "Composing the Law: An Interview with Derrick Wang, Creator of the Scalia/Ginsburg Opera". American Bar Association. 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  5. Scalia, Antonin; Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (2015). "Prefaces to Scalia/Ginsburg: A (Gentle) Parody of Operatic Proportions". The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. 38 (2): 237. doi:10.7916/jla.v38i2.2118. ISSN 2161-9271.
  6. Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (2016). My Own Words. Hartnett, Mary; Williams, Wendy W. (1st ed.). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. pp. 43–55, 341–350. ISBN 978-1-5011-4524-7. OCLC 946693458.
  7. Chemerinsky, Erwin (2016-11-08). "Book Review: My Own Words". Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  8. Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, My Own Words [audiobook], Hartnett, Mary; Williams, Wendy; Lavin, Linda, Disc 2, Track 3, ISBN 978-1-5082-2628-4, OCLC 949219733, retrieved 2020-11-02
  9. Tarmy, James (2022-01-04). "Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Private Library Is Coming to Auction". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  10. "The Library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Autograph Notes on Opera and Law". Bonhams. 2022-01-27. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  11. "Derrick Wang Joins Peabody Faculty". Peabody Magazine. 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  12. Cruickshank, Saralyn (2020-11-06). "Forging friendships across political divides". The Hub. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
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