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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

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Emily Dickinson in her Elements:
​Accomplished Musician,
Emerging Poet

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Music and the Artistry of William Sidney Mount

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Take Me Out to the 
Ball Game

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Irish Traditions 
Hidden and Revealed


Recent 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

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 Musicology/Public History 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 musicological facts and insights, 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.
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Main Stage and Scaled productions
The Red Skies Public Musicology/Public History Performance Model for public programs is also offered as Red Skies Tent Productions: a flexible, adaptable, lower budget alternative to our full-stage productions. Crafted with the same approach and engaging content, they have a delivery scaled to fit a range of smaller, intimate and/or unique settings.

Images: Amherst College Library, Special Collections; Long Island Museum of America Art and History; The New York Library for the Performing Arts.
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Copyright 2022 George Boziwick and Trudy Williams