For the first-ever virtual installment of this MFA tradition, local musicians perform works selected—and in some cases composed—in response to MFA artworks. Performances are broadcast from the exhibitions that inspired them and many highlight instruments from the Museum’s collection.

The virtual event, streaming here and on Facebook and YouTube, features:

Nedelka F. Prescod, vocalist, songwriter, composer, and arranger on faculty at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, premiering an original work inspired by “Women Take the Floor.” With accompaniment from Consuelo Candelaria-Barry, playing the MFA’s electric “Storytone” piano.
The Cramer Quartet, an innovative period ensemble, performing Classical works on some of the MFA’s 18th-century French string instruments in “Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression” and “Cézanne: In and Out of Time,” as well as a modern work, composed by Caroline Shaw, in “Women Take the Floor.”
Queen D. Scott, hip-hop artist and Assistant Chair of the Ensemble department at Berklee College of Music, performing an original work in response to “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation.”
Prescod and Scott performing a cypher of traditional and modern Black music, created in collaboration with Tariq Charles and the teen scholars from the MFA’s Curatorial Study Hall program and inspired by “Black Histories, Black Futures.”