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Gordon Jephtas (1943 - 1992): a coloured life in opera
Thesis (MMus)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/110282 Gordon Jephtas (1943 - 1992): a coloured life in opera Davids, Feroll-Jon Roos, Hilde Venter, Carina Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Dept. of Music. Jephtas, Gordon, 1943-1992 Colored people (South Africa) -- Race identity Opera -- Biography Pianists -- South Africa -- Correspondence Apartheid -- South Africa Vocal coaches UCTD Thesis (MMus)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Pianist-répétiteur Gordon Jephtas’s (1943-1992) status as a classified ‘coloured’ in apartheid South Africa left him with very little opportunity to pursue a professional musical career in the country. In 1965, Jephtas left South Africa and consequently earned much success abroad as a sought-after vocal coach. In international opera circles, he worked with singers such as Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Marilyn Horne, Montserrat Caballé, Neil Shicoff and Luciano Pavarotti at various European and American opera houses. Jephtas’s career in opera has hitherto not been documented extensively. This thesis provides a biographical account of his life in opera based on the primary source material in the Eoan Group Archive housed at Stellenbosch University’s Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS). In his 28-year correspondence (1962-1990) with Eoan Group soprano May Abrahamse (born 1930), Jephtas elaborated on a range of topics related and unrelated to opera. Evident in the correspondence is Jephtas’s coming to grips with his coloured identity. In the initial 13 years of the correspondence, Jephtas grappled with his colouredness due to internalised pejorative conceptualisations of coloured identity in apartheid South Africa. As he spent more time outside the country and its enforced modalities of apartheid thinking and practice, his relationship with his own colouredness changed significantly. By the end of the correspondence, Jephtas was immensely proud to be a coloured South African. Disclosing that cultural identity is not fixed, the Jephtas narrative illustrates that although environment contributes to identity formation, identity itself is ultimately shaped and re-shaped by the individual. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Gedurende die apartheidsjare in Suid-Afrika het die pianis-répétiteur Gordon Jephtas (1943-1992) se rasseklassifikasie as ʼn ‘kleurling’ hom baie min geleenthede gebied om plaaslik ʼn musiekloopbaan te kon vestig. Hy verlaat derhalwe die land in 1965 en behaal groot sukses in die buiteland as ʼn gesogte stemafrigter. In die internasionale operakringe het hy in ʼn verskeidenheid Europese en Amerikaanse operahuise gewerk met sangers soos Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Marilyn Horne, Montserrat Caballé, Neil Shicoff en Luciano Pavarotti. Jephtas se loopbaan in opera is tot op hede nie breedvoerig gedokumenteer nie. Hierdie skripsie, gegrond op die primêre bronmateriaal in die Eoan Group-argief wat by die Universiteit van Stellenbosch se Dokumentasiesentrum vir Musiek (DOMUS) gehuisves word, bied ʼn biografiese blik op Jephtas se lewe in opera. In sy korrespondensie van 28 jaar (1962-1990) met die Eoan Group-sopraan May Abrahamse (gebore 1930) word ʼn verskeidenheid onderwerpe aangeraak, waaronder opera. Wat blyk uit die korrespondensie is Jephtas se stryd met sy ‘kleurling’ identiteit. In die eerste 13 jaar se korrespondensie wroeg Jephtas oor sy identiteit weens die negatiewe konsepsies van ‘kleurling’-skap wat hy geïnternaliseer het. Namate hy meer tyd in die buiteland deurgebring het en verwyderd was van die gedwonge modaliteit van apartheidsdenke, het sy worsteling met sy identiteit aansienlik verander. Teen die einde van die korrespondensie was Jephtas geweldig trots daarop dat hy ʼn bruin Suid-Afrikaner was. Die Jephtas-narratief illustreer dat kulturele identiteit nie staties is nie. Dit dui ook aan dat alhoewel mens se omgewing bydra tot identiteitsvorming, identiteit uiteindelik deur individue gevorm en hervorm word. Masters 2021-03-02T10:13:46Z 2021-04-22T10:12:24Z 2021-03-02T10:13:46Z 2021-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110282 en_ZA Stellenbosch University vii, 54 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
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| topic | Jephtas, Gordon, 1943-1992 Colored people (South Africa) -- Race identity Opera -- Biography Pianists -- South Africa -- Correspondence Apartheid -- South Africa Vocal coaches UCTD |
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