there was a man at the time, named dean dixon, whose mission in life was to turn children on to beautiful music. and he had an all-city orchestra who took opera performances around to various schools, condensed them into one hour, narrated in between. there were costumes, bare staging. so, my introduction to opera was thanks to dean dixon in 1944. david: so the "scalia/ginsburg" opera was written by a law school student? justice ginsburg: he was then a law school student. he was a music major at harvard and a masters in music from yale. derrick wang is his name. he decided it would be useful to know something about the law, so he enrolled in his hometown law school, the university of maryland. and in his second year, he took a constitutional law course. he read these dueling opinions, scalia on one side, ginsburg on the other, and decided this could make a very funny opera. [laughter] so i'll just give you a taste of "scalia/ginsburg." it opens with scalia's rage -- [laughter] it's very hungarian in style. and he sings, "the justices are blind. how can they possibly spout this? the constitution says absolutely nothing