Welcome to The Red Skies Tent
Museums, libraries and historical societies: The Red Skies Music Ensemble can work with you to create custom programs (in a single or series format) featuring your archives and special collections. Researchers working with your physical and on-line artifacts and materials gain a new way to communicate findings. General audiences gain an experiential engagement with research-related materials not always available to the public.
Musicologists, Curators, Public Historians, and Scholars: We welcome contributions to programs from existing or in-progress research, and we welcome interest in collaborating to create new programs.
Musicologists, Curators, Public Historians, and Scholars: We welcome contributions to programs from existing or in-progress research, and we welcome interest in collaborating to create new programs.
The Red Skies Music Ensemble's Performance Model for Animating Public History
The Red Skies Music Ensemble's performance based Public History model is a lively way to communicate and engage audiences in animated Public History. Entering through the lens of music, we craft cross-disciplinary programs that combine music and theatrical elements in a multi-media format to present cultural and socio-historical facts, interpretation and archival imagery.
Our aim is to give audiences a transformational experience through hearing, seeing and participatory elements. Tent programs can be main stage productions or "Pocket Programs" adapted for non-traditional theater settings.
RSME programs inherently support audience engagement with both physical and digital archives and artifacts. Understanding more about contextual meanings and inter-connections between artifacts, archives and historical/cultural facts and insights enriches, and can inspire and inform civic engagement and foster an enlivened, closer relationship to preservation, discovery and cultural sharing.
The Red Skies Music Ensemble's performance based Public History model is a lively way to communicate and engage audiences in animated Public History. Entering through the lens of music, we craft cross-disciplinary programs that combine music and theatrical elements in a multi-media format to present cultural and socio-historical facts, interpretation and archival imagery.
Our aim is to give audiences a transformational experience through hearing, seeing and participatory elements. Tent programs can be main stage productions or "Pocket Programs" adapted for non-traditional theater settings.
RSME programs inherently support audience engagement with both physical and digital archives and artifacts. Understanding more about contextual meanings and inter-connections between artifacts, archives and historical/cultural facts and insights enriches, and can inspire and inform civic engagement and foster an enlivened, closer relationship to preservation, discovery and cultural sharing.
Red Skies Tent Programs
Pocket Program 2018 Dickinson's Musical Eden: Emily and Lavinia at the Emily DIckinson Museum
Main Stage Programs 2018 Music and the Artistry of William Sidney Mount at the Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages, a Smithsonian affiliate
2019 William Sidney Mount, Walt Whitman and the Sounds of the 19th Century at the Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages,a Smithsonian affiliate
In development 2021 Complex Harmony: Walt Whitman, Music and the Railroads
Pocket Program 2018 Dickinson's Musical Eden: Emily and Lavinia at the Emily DIckinson Museum
Main Stage Programs 2018 Music and the Artistry of William Sidney Mount at the Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages, a Smithsonian affiliate
2019 William Sidney Mount, Walt Whitman and the Sounds of the 19th Century at the Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages,a Smithsonian affiliate
In development 2021 Complex Harmony: Walt Whitman, Music and the Railroads
Who is the Red Skies Tent for?
- Institutions of all kinds that want to offer scholars researching their holdings a means to broaden the audience for their work, and to provide audiences with special or regular engagement with Public Musicology as a form of Public History
- Scholars, researchers, and institutions who want to collaborate in creating new programs
- Scholars interested in seeing their work animated in public who want to offer contributions to our programs from their completed or in-progress work
- Researchers engaged with alternatives to publication as a way to share findings with the public
- Musicologists and curators (affiliated and independent) wanting a unique way to bring their holdings and insights to the public
- Educators
- Performing artists who share our interests and aims
Red Skies Tent Workshops and Residencies
Custom workshops or residencies are available related to The Red Skies Music Ensemble programs that include specialized lectures, demonstrations and/or master classes.
Custom workshops or residencies are available related to The Red Skies Music Ensemble programs that include specialized lectures, demonstrations and/or master classes.
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