MC RBG? Justice Ginsburg To Spin Tunes On Radio Next Week

Block off some time for Justice Ginsburg to host a radio show. Yes, you read that right.

onSeptember 17, 2015 at 4:00 PM

An eerie silence falls over the palpably excited crowd, all jostling for space in the darkened hall. Backlit by floodlights, the DJ rises to her perch, calmly triggers the turntables, and with one hand clutching a pair of headphones to one ear, slowly raises her other into the air bringing the crowd into a near hysteria before dropping her extended arm in a gavel motion on the downbeat as the audience explodes in an orgasmic fury of glowsticks and jabots.

That’s probably not the scene next week when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stops by Chicago classical station WFMT to guest host Lisa Flynn’s midday program. Justice Ginsburg’s love of the dulcet tones of classical music — specifically opera — is well-documented. She’s publicly declared that she’d have loved to become a great operatic diva, and her son is the founder and president of Cedille Records, a nonprofit classical label.

First Justice Breyer on Colbert, now Notorious RBG spinning? Summer break’s almost over!

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From Pilot and Above The Law

So, what’s the scoop on the show? From Chicago media blogger Robert Feder:

Starting at [11 a.m. Eastern] Monday, Ginsburg will join midday host Lisa Flynn live on the air to share some of her favorite music. At [12 p.m. Eastern] Ginsburg and Flynn will present “Opera and the Law,” during which singers from Lyric Opera of Chicago will perform operatic excerpts with legal themes.

The repertoire, featuring scenes from Bizet’s Carmen, Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Britten’s Billy Budd, Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking, and Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, was selected by Ginsburg, who’ll provide her own commentary.

If you aren’t in Chicago on Monday, never fear. You can listen here at ATL because we plan to stream WFMT for the occasion.

And the whole event caps off with a web-exclusive segment on wfmt.com where Justice Ginsburg will count down her top five favorite operas. Any speculation out there?