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March 9, 2005
Professor David K. Barton will combine music, word and video during the 20th Annual Lundquist Faculty Fellowship Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, in the Indiana University South Bend Campus Auditorium, Northside Hall.
Barton is professor of music, 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 has been a faculty member since 1976. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in music with an emphasis on composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also taught at U.C. Santa Barbara and College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati.
He received tenure at IU South Bend in 1984 and was recognized for his teaching abilities by being honored by FACET for excellence in teaching in 1992.
His 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.
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His support of new music in Michiana is represented by the many Michiana 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. He wore many hats – public relations, advertising, hospital development director, sportscaster and legislator. He was a member of the Indiana General Assembly from 1961 to 1976, where he served as the Senate Education Committee chairman for more than a decade.
In 1976, he was appointed assistant to the president of Indiana University with an office at IU South Bend. He served in that role until his death in 1977.
His friends established an endowment in his name to sponsor public lectures. In 1984, the Faculty Fellowship Program was established to support IU South Bend faculty members who demonstrate outstanding accomplishments in teaching, scholarship and research.
The evening is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the performance.
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