He wrote mainly chamber music, including five string quartets, and some songs.
Chadwick hired him as a professor in piano and composition in 1898, a position he held until his retirement in 1940.
[5] There is an extant recording of an excerpt of his Creole String Quartet from a 1938 broadcast played by the Forum String Quartet of Boston for the "Works Progress Administration Presents" radio programs, part of the Federal Music Project.
[6][7] During the 1900s he amassed a large collection of American Impressionist art, including works by Edmnund Tarbell, Willard Metcalf, Charles Davis, George Lorenzo Noyes, William McGregor Paxton, and Louis Kronberg.
[12] In a Redman exhibit at the Childs Gallery a few years after his death, Boston Globe art critic noted: "Redman's was a personal art, blending with real fascination the sophisticated theorist and the technically naieve.