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BeyondGeography

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Wed Jul 8, 2015, 09:08 PM Jul 2015

RBG: Scalia sang "The Times They Are A-Changin'" with "great verve" after marriage ruling

It sounds like a scene from an unreleased Kurt Vonnegut novel: A conservative Supreme Court justice, fuming after losing a dramatic debate on same-sex marriage, heads to a party and, before you can say “Summer of Love,” has jumped into a sing-along of Bob Dylan’s “The Times, They Are A-Changin’.”

Don’t believe it? Well, she told us!

“He sang with great verve,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said of Justice Antonin Scalia in a phone interview with The Washington Post this week. “Nino,” as she calls him, is her philosophical opposite and great friend. And Saturday, Ginsburg will watch and listen to their relationship played out on the stage at the Castleton Festival in Virginia. Derrick Wang’s one-act opera, “Scalia/Ginsburg,” makes its world premiere, with repeat performances July 17 and 19...

..."I just hope people will have a good time and that they get a better understanding about the court and how well we work together. We’re not like Congress at the moment. So divided there’s no conversation possible. That’s the message that you get at the end of it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/from-rage-aria-to-lovely-duet-opera-does-justice-to-court-ginsburg-says/2015/07/08/1a8079a2-2515-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html?hpid=z10


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