By Ken Mammarella Contributing Writer
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here’s a worldliness in contemporary classical composer Jennifer Margaret Barker’s pieces. She’s a native of Scotland who has traveled often around the globe, and her style is programmatic, inspired by stories, experiences and visuals. There’s also a depth that cannot be conveyed by any of the languages that she knows. “I want to share and say something with my music more than words can,” said Barker, a Newark resident and a full professor at the University of Delaware, who teaches music composition and theory.
All photos courtesy of Jennifer Margaret Barker
Footage of 6-wire performing “Tìrean Cèin” is part of Newark composer Jennifer Margaret Barker’s 2016 multimedia piece, known in English as “Distant Shores.”
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