Gary Barton:
CLASS OF 1965
Franklin High SchoolClass of 1965
Livonia, MI
Penn High SchoolClass of 1965
Mishawaka, IN
Gary's Story
Resume etc. If you've been here before, scroll down to the last (and newest) paragraph. All are invited to my Sunday Webcast, live every week from my studio. It's a little strange, but then I always was anyway, so go figure
Gary Barton
Education: Michigan State University 1965-1969 Major Broadcasting
Mercy College of Detroit 1969-1972 Major Theater
Waldorf Teacher Training Institute, Detroit 1969-1972
(Substituted in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes while in program,
Played Huckle in Shepherds Play, Also Directed Cincinnati
Performance years ago)
University of Cincinnati (part time) Graduated December 10, 2011 with a B.A. in History (just shy of 2 months after getting my Medicare card ;o)
Employment: WKAR, WKAR-FM, MSU East Lansing- Announcer, Music Programmer, Engineer 1965-1969
WMSB Television, booth announcer 1967 summer
Governors Office on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, State of Michigan, Narration for Media Programs 1970
WQRS-FM Detroit (Commercial Classical) Announcer, Music Programmer, Engineer 1969-1970
WDET-FM Detroit (Wayne State University) Announcer/Producer Experimental Programming 1970-1973
WGUC-FM 1973 to retirement (Originally University of Cincinnati, now Cincinnati Public Radio Inc., a non-profit organization) Announcer, Fundraiser, Producer, Writer, Recording engineer.
Activities while here in Cincinnati:
Co-hosted NPR's Live broadcasts from The 1973 Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival.
Hosted Several National Public Radio Series including A Second Flemish Notebook in conjunction with Belgian Radio and Television ,The Munich Ring Cycle & the Bicentennial Season of the Berlin Philharmonic in conjunction with Deutsche Welle (Germany).
Narrator for United States Environmental Protection Agency technical training video: Testing Public Water Supplies for Trihalomethanes.
Regular contributor for National Public Radios series Voices in the Wind, Produced by Robert Monteigle in Washington D.C.
Three times season Host of National Broadcasts of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Season Concerts via National Public Radio.
Host for 25 years of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati May Festival local broadcasts. (Also producer, writer and tape editor of these concerts)(6 seasons of May Festival on NPR)
Three on stage appearances with Cincinnati Pops, Eric Kunzel conducting (Narrator, Peter and the Wolf; Host for an Evening with John Philip Sousa with Keith Bryon, cuckoo soloist Leopold Mozart's Toy Symphony.)
Host national PBS broadcast of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jesus Lopez Cobos, conducting.
Narrator for Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera Music with the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra; Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducting.
Voice of The Double Bass, Bass Evolution a Barry Green-Worth Gardiner
Production, Original stage production & LP record (recently added to The Library of Congress.)
Narrator for CD-ROM produced by composer and Bassist Frank Proto
Voice for DVD project for Frank Proto. (Just being released)
Produced first fund raising marathon for Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on WKRC.
Worked with Christopher Mann to bring Eurythmeum Stuttgart and the Rumanian State Orchestra to Cincinnati for the first time for performances at Xavier University. I also provided advance media interviews for the cities the tour traveled to.
Narrator for three separate long running shows for Cincinnati Museum of Natural History Planetarium. Lifetime member Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.
Voice Talent with Ekimi (Billy Larkin, piano/Chris Dahlgren, bass & company) Good King Wenceslas (sold as national CD as well as initial airing as NPR Christmas Special "The Next Noel".)
Voice talent "The Yorkshire-man" for Arlee Strange's "Etta Stone: A Film for Radio".
Host of first stereo Trans Atlantic Broadcast of a live concert via The European Broadcasting Union (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra). Broadcast carried in Spain, France, Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands and Israel. Same pr...Expand for more
ogram also carried live in U.S. by National Public Radio.
Host, live national Broadcast of Inaugural Concert at Riverbend by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, NPR.
MC and Auctioneer for Channel 48's Action Auction.
Narrator for Tom Law Productions video Saving a Kentucky Time Capsule on Kentucky Cave Glyphs carried by Kentucky Educational Television (KET).
Live radio reports from Switzerland during CSO's Centennial European Tour.
Recognitions:
Associated Press Judges Award for Cincinnati Bicentennial Minutes 1989
Ohio Educational Broadcasting Network Commission:
Community Service Award 1980
Program of the Year Award 1983
Next Noel Program of The Year 1984
Declared Honorary Member Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (the only in history) June 23, 1987
Four times Guest Lecturer for Dr. Daniel Ransohoff's Urban Lobbying Course at U. of C.
Regular guest lecturer on music & art, History Department, University of Cincinnati
Hosted a show on Radio Free Amsterdam for a while but disliked "pod-casting" preferring to do live work on the dfm network on the internet.
Play with electric trains (N Scale (1:160 scale with 9 mm. wide track) whenever possible. I have already built a "layout" about 1.25meters X 2.75m. with operating overhead catenary. Projected display will be 5 times bigger!
IMPORTANT ! ATTENTION ! WEBCAST ALERT !!
Please join me Sunday mornings at 10:00 am Eastern for my weekly Internet webcast called "Boof Centraal". Go to dfm.nu , click on a stereo line speed that comes closest to your isp's download speed in the box you prefer (I use Windows Media Player) and groove. The show starts promptly at 10:00 am Eastern with me leaping onto a Swiss train which does not stop! That's 10 Eastern; 9:00 Central ; 8:00 Mountain and 7:00 Pacific. I play some stuff you won't hear elsewhere. Oh, and do join the chat room too if you like-the more the merrier!
Because of my profession, I have a huge LP, CD & SACD collection. We have a Marantz 7.1 channel Surround Sound system w/ Blu Ray Player in our 2nd floor living room. My favorite composer is Dmitri Shostakovich. Music knows no boundaries, to quote a Ladyship Black Mombasa song. I also like Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and Witold Lutoslawski. I love jazz, folk, blues, rock along with classical & Avant-garde. One of my hobbies is recording thunder storms.
Both of my parents passed on in 2009. I only wish my mother could have been there when my degree was conferred upon me by The University of Cincinnati.
Do catch my Sunday internet radio show on (they won't let me say here the url, go figure. Send me an e mail through Pat Whitman and I'll send it to you.) , Sundays from 10:00am till Noon Eastern. DFM.nu
If you've had a career in the Arts, please let me know, if it's visual I'd love to see it. Many of you are musically gifted and I'd love to hear about your experiences be they "professional" or "amateur". If you've made any recordings I'd love to have them for my Sunday show. See me at the reunion and we can trade!
Now, if you know me, send me a note about what you've been up to for 50 years. Aside from doing theatre at Franklin, I was pretty busy working in the E.R. of a Detroit Hospital weekends, and didn't get the opportunity to meet many of you. I tried to become a navy pilot when my 2-S deferment at MSU ended, but as circumstances were to develop I was classified 4-F, but that's another, and still painful story. Don't feel hurt if I don't remember you if you're coming to the reunion, some mornings I can't remember who the guy in the mirror is!
I intentionally have no children, as it had already become evident to me as a student at Emerson Jr. High School that Global Climate change was going to radically change life as we had known it within 2 generations on our planet. I posted a photograph of our fragile planet and Brian's superb painting to serve as reminders of what we stand to lose unless we learn to radically cut the use of hydrocarbons and turn to clean renewable energy. Personally, I believe we've already passed the "tipping point", and that the Earth faces another mass extinction.
If you're coming to the reunion, do bring photographs...of your hobbies, kids or whatever. Mostly, I'd like to have a chance to say hello to all who attend. Let me know you've read this and I'll try and shut up and listen to you.
Gary
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