Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
October 7, 2021
LIDIYA YANKOVSKAYA conducts
DENYCE GRAVES mezzo-soprano
JEFFREY BIEGEL piano
MOZART Overture to Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
JEFFREY BIEGEL Reflection of Justice: An Ode to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
BIZET Carmen
ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg | World Premiere
WAGNER Overture to Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
Concert featuring the world premiere of a new work by distinguished American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich paying homage to and remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the first anniversary of her passing in September 2020.
This new composition – featuring Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano) and Jeffrey Biegel (pianist and project coordinator), with the DSO – is co-commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with generous support of the Norma and Don Stone New Music Fund, and the Billy Rose Foundation and the American Composers Forum.