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Barton
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David Barton, professor of music at IU South Bend, will combine music, word and video during the 20th annual Lundquist Faculty Fellowship Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, at Northside Hall on the South Bend campus.
Barton is also music area coordinator and the director of graduate studies of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend. He is a pioneer in his field of improvisational music, performing locally and at numerous festivals.
The evening, titled Pilgrimage, will describe his personal journey in improvisational music and the spiritual pursuit of his art. Joining him on the stage will be fellow musician Boyd Nutting of Buchanan. Barton’s specialty is composing computer-assisted electronic music. Since 1988, he has been the coordinator of the performance ensemble PLATO and the Western Tradition. The ensemble performs regularly on campus and at a number of music and computer festivals across the country.
His support of new music in Michiana is represented by the many composers’ recitals he has produced at IU South Bend and by the annual Michiana Improvisational Music Festival that he began in 1991. He also serves as the president of the board of the Elnora Hartman Stickley Scholarship Foundation.
The Lundquist Lecture was instituted in 1984 and named after Eldon Lundquist, one of Elkhart’s best known natives. In 1984, the Faculty Fellowship Program was established to support IU South Bend faculty members who demonstrate outstanding accomplishments in teaching, scholarship and research.
http://mypage.iusb.edu/~dbarton/
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