Faculty Works

Charlotte Brathwaite

Associate Professor

CHAPTER + VERSE: THE GOSPEL OF JAMES BALDWIN

Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin
Imagined by Meshell Ndegeocello and Charlotte Brathwaite

A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard, Co-Commissioned by Fisher Center at Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, MCA Chicago, and Festival de Marseille.

“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin

A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treaty on justice in America, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter and Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.

Participants are invited to engage in an urgent and critical investigation of race, religion, sexual orientation, America and its status quo, celebrating Baldwin’s ideas and legacy through music and visual imagery, calling for Individual actions remotely executed in unison. Using the vernacular of a church service, structured rituals or worship, empowerment, and sacred practices inspire the gifts the project will offer each month for free. Each month, September–December 2020, these gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time—can be accessed via www.TheGospelofJamesBaldwin.com.

www.charlottebrathwaite.com

Sara Brown

Class Of 1957 Career Development Professor

The Other Shore.

Opening at Jacobs Pillow virtually in August 2021 and in person in the summer of 2022.

http://www.sarabdesign.com

Peter Child

Class of 1949 Professor

Stella celi
For solo cello
(2021)

An Association for the Promotion of New Music "Masked Music" Commission for Composer/Performer Pairs.

Peter Child, composer; Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello.

https://peterchild.com/

Claire Conceison

Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture

Claire Conceison, "Miller in China" (Ch. 15) in Stephen Marino and David Palmer, eds.,

Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 (pp. 237-260).

Michael Scott Cuthbert

Associate Professor

Final Music Analysis Projects for MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Music and Theater Arts Section,

Course 21m.383, Computational Music Theory and Analysis.

Eran Egozy

Professor of the Practice

ConcertCue

ConcertCue (formerly NoteStream) is a mobile web application that streams synchronized program notes during a live musical performance. These program notes include text, images, and other rich media, precisely timed to important events in the music itself. The goal is to help audience members better appreciate and understand the music they hear.

Comusica

Comusica is a participatory music experience that was unveiled as a centerpiece of the MIT virtual Commencement on May 29, 2020 at 1pm EDT.

To help foster the sense of community experienced during an on-campus commencement, Comusica features the voices of more than 800 MIT class of 2020 graduates and alumni, stitched together into one of the largest crowd-sourced pieces of music ever undertaken. The hundreds of video submissions were collected from students each singing a single note. To learn more about Comusica, follow the links provided below:

Project Site

Final Product