Bringing Research to the Stage
The Red Skies Music Ensemble combines music, theater and scholarship,
making archives and special collections come alive
through research and performance.
Trudy Williams, Artistic Director/Curator, Co-Founder
George Boziwick, Curator/Music Director, Co-Founder
The Red Skies Music Ensemble combines music, theater and scholarship,
making archives and special collections come alive
through research and performance.
Trudy Williams, Artistic Director/Curator, Co-Founder
George Boziwick, Curator/Music Director, Co-Founder
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Recent Pre-Pandemic Performances
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game": The Story of Katie Casey, Suffrage and Our National Pastime
2019 The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Walt Whitman, William Sidney Mount and the Sounds of the 19th Century
2019 The Long Island Museum of American Art and History
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game": The Story of Katie Casey, Suffrage and Our National Pastime
2019 The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Walt Whitman, William Sidney Mount and the Sounds of the 19th Century
2019 The Long Island Museum of American Art and History
About the Programs
Trudy Williams (Artistic Director/Curator) and George Boziwick (Curator/Musical Director) create and produce research-based programs that are educational and entertaining for both general and expert audiences.
Through the The Red Skies Music Ensemble's Public History/Public Musicology performance model, each program uses a humanities approach to bring research to the stage through the lens of music in an engaging, research-based narrative, musical and theatrical performances, and large screen images of archival documents and artifacts. These elements are combined in a single setting to bring the audience on journey that contextualizes historical and cultural facts, insights and interpretations, many of which have been hidden in plain sight or dimmed in cultural memory. Programs include opportunities for audience participation, and conclude with a Q&A, often with a guest expert.
The Red Skies Tent
We welcome collaborative engagement with public and private institutions related to their mission, archives and special collections, as well as with affiliated and independent scholars, historians, musicologists, researchers and curators. Programs are designed to accommodate formal and informal performance settings.
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Images: Amherst College Library, Special Collections; Long Island Museum of America Art and History; The New York Library for the Performing Arts.
Copyright 2022 George Boziwick and Trudy Williams