TOMORROW, LOVE…
TOMORROW, LOVE…
A poetic chamber work reimagining love as a collective act of resilience
2025 & 2026: Development
Summer 2026: World Premiere
Currently seeking commissioning and presenting partners
TOMORROW, LOVE... is a new work for voices, violin and piano that considers the role of love as a transformational good. Inspired by bell hooks’ All About Love, Bamuthi moves the audience through memory, music, and myths of love— the lineage of men who shaped him, masculine icons we’ve adored, and the ways in which our world teaches—or sometimes fails—men in how to love. DBR's score breathes with the intimacy of their own truths, leading to a gospel quartet rising up—four voices lifting the men as chorus and heartbeat, a collective communion carrying the desire to choose love as an ethic. In a world where power equates to cruelty, how can we bend masculinity towards the softness of love as power?
TOMORROW, LOVE... is an inquiry and a celebration, at once tender and monumental: a hopeful reckoning with how we might reimagine love as a radical inheritance for the future.
As sons of Haitian immigrants, Joseph and Roumain bring deeply personal histories into their collaborations, creating works that resonate with questions of identity, belonging, and transformation. They have cultivated a long-standing creative partnership that moves fluidly across orchestras, theater, opera, and film. Their collaborative work has been commissioned by leading institutions, including Carnegie Hall, Atlanta Ballet and Opera Philadelphia to name a few.
The Just and The Blind (2022), Photo by Robert Torres
Forgiveness (2025)
ABOUT MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a TED Global Fellow, an Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In the Spring of 2022, he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An internationally renowned cultural strategist, Bamuthi is the co-creator of the paradigm-shifting allyship training HEALING FORWARD™. He has lectured in 25 different countries and his TED talk “You Have The Rite” has been viewed more than five million times.
Bamuthi has most recently completed commissions for Yale University, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, The Minnesota Orchestra, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera. His new opera "Watch Night" with music by Tamar-kali and direction by Bill T. Jones premiered at PAC NYC in 2023, and his collaboration with NYC Ballet Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan "Carnival of the Animals" premiered at Meany Center, Seattle in 2024 and is currently touring. His most recent orchestral work “Good News Mass” with music by Carlos Simon will premiere with the LA Philharmonic in April 2025. His latest collaboration with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Forgiveness, is slated for an album release in late 2025 with Albany Symphony. Select works by Bamuthi are available for purchase and rental on SozoMart.com.
An emergent on screen talent, he is among the featured performers in HBO’s screen adaptation of “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehesi Coates. He served as the Vice President of Social Impact at The Kennedy Center from 2019-25. A proud alumnus of Morehouse College, Bamuthi received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts in the Spring of 2022 and was the recipient of a second Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College in the Spring of 2023. Bamuthi is represented by SOZO.
Photo Credit Bethanie Hines
ABOUT DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN (DBR)
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a Black, Haitian-American composer who sees composing as collaboration with artists, organizations and communities within the farming and framing of ideas. He is a prolific and endlessly collaborative composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR has worked with artists from Philip Glass to Bill T. Jones to Lady Gaga, as well as institutions including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Kennedy Center, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Sydney Opera House. Acclaimed as a violinist and activist, DBR’s career spans more than two decades, earning commissions by venerable artists and institutions worldwide.
Known for his signature violin sounds infused with myriad electronic, urban, and African-American music influences, DBR is a composer of solo, chamber, orchestral, and operatic works, and has composed an array of film, theater, and dance scores. He has composed music for the acclaimed film Ailey (Sundance official selection); won Emmy awards for The New Look of Classical Music and Art is Essential; released and appeared on 30 album recordings; and has published over 300 works.
An avid arts industry leader, DBR was the first Artistic Ambassador with Firstworks; the first Artist Activist-in-Residence at Longy School of Music; and the first Resident Artistic Catalyst with the New Jersey Symphony. He serves as a board member for the League of American Orchestras, and is a voting member for the Recording Academy GRAMMY awards.
DBR earned his doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan and is currently a tenured Institute Professor at Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Photo Credit Robert Torres