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

Derrick Wang is an American composer and writer.

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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