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Re-Channelings of a Percussive Education a Dissertation UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Conducting, Teaching, Curating: Re-channelings of a Percussive Education A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music Performance by Jonathan David Hepfer Committee in charge: Professor Steven Schick, Chair Professor Anthony Burr Professor William Arctander O’Brien Professor Jann Pasler Professor Kim Rubinstein 2016 © Jonathan David Hepfer, 2016 All rights reserved. This Dissertation of Jonathan David Hepfer is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication on microfilm and electronically: ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Chair University of California, San Diego 2016 iii DEDICATION TO: Will and Cindy for three decades of selflessness, and for saying “yes” at some crucial moments when I was really expecting to hear “no.” ! My grandfather for showing me the wisdom that nine decades of curiosity can produce. ! Anthony Miranda, Jan Williams, Gordon Gottlieb, Michael Rosen, Steven Schick, Bernhard Wulff, Lewis Nielson, Brian Alegant, Tim Weiss, and William Arctander O’Brien for watering me. THANK YOU ! Anthony Burr, Jann Pasler, Kim Rubinstein, Aleck Karis, Phil Larson, Ed Harkins, Susan Narucki, Jacob Greenberg, Olivia Mattis, Jon Nelson, and Jonathan Golove for the illumination. ! Christian Dierstein, Robert Van Sice, Anders Loguin, Bob Becker, Roland Auzet, and Pascal Pons for the encouragement. ! Jean-Pierre Drouet, Gaston Sylvestre, Maurizio Ben Omar, Christoph Caskel, and Sylvio Gualda for your bravery in carving out truly original paths, and your willingness to share your adventures with me. ! Pierluigi Billone, Steven Takasugi, Chaya Czernowin, Rolf Riehm, Roger Reynolds, Klaus Lang, Brian Ferneyhough, Vinko Globokar, Georges Aperghis, Alvin Lucier, Salvatore Sciarrino, Helmut Lachenmann, David Felder, Joyce Cutler-Shaw and Paul Griffiths for taking me seriously, and sharing your wisdom. ! Keith Sczepanski, Matt Jenkins, Ross Karre, Brian Archinal, Nick Tolle, and Zach Crystal for the unavoidable friendly competition. You’ve each made me so much better. ! Mark Menzies, Amy Knoles, David Johnson, Vicki Ray, and David Rosenboom for welcoming me to Cal Arts with open arms. ! Greg Stuart, Justin DeHart, Fabio Olivera, and Eric Derr for being out of control. Also for causing a sensation, and diffusing everything with laughter (“…ah tell yew whut…”) ! Brendan Nguyen, Richard Valitutto, Stephen Menotti, Curt Miller, Solon Gordon, Sam Dunscombe, Judith Hamman, Brian Walsh, Andrew McIntosh, Andrew Tholl, Ashley Walters, Christine Tavolacci, and Pavlos Antoniadis for your generosity in collaboration. ! Alexei Lubimov, Rei Nakamura, Jay Campbell, Séverine Ballon, Yegor Shevtsov, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Nicholas Isherwood, Mario Caroli, Movses Pogossian, and Alexander Lonquich for the inspiration through example. ! Dustin Donahue, Ryan Nestor, Leah Bowden, Fiona Digney, Bonnie Whiting, Steve Solook, Kjell Nordeson, Julien Annoni, Louise Devenish, Julian Belli, Nick Reed, Chris Sande, and Max Riefer for tolerating me in my brattiest moments. ! Michael Hayes, Benjamin Genchel, Leanna Goddard, Brietta Greger, Kelly Furniss, and Tionna Brunson for affording me the inexpressible responsibility, privilege and satisfaction of being your teacher. ! Håkon Stene, Alex Lipowski, John Langford, Fredrik Wallberg, Justin Urcis, Sayan Benbady, and Alessandra Belloni for all the unofficial mentorship. ! Timothy McCormack, Mark Barden, Simon Steen-Andersen, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Evan Johnson, Aaron Helgeson, Rick Burkhart, Jason Eckardt, and Ian Power for giving me faith in the future of this art form. ! Artemisa Clark, Melinda Guillen, Samara Kaplan, Wanda Orme, Kylie King, and Mileece I’anson for showing me that the future is female. ! Jean Claude, Carolina Aboumrad, Susann Moore, Geisha, Alegre Bianco, Eve Smith, Jeni Ni, Donna Lew, Matthew Amendola, Aaron JPG, BJ Panda Bear, Andrew Dryden, Patrick Moss, Andrü Sisson, Andrew Tonkery, Alison Baar, Emily Wells, Nichole Fitch, and Jason Lev for making me feel welcome in the city I can now call home (“choose your tribe wisely, and protect your magic.”) ! Isaac Malitz, Valerie Stalvey, and Margaret Morgan for entrusting me with the responsibilities of my dream position, and showing me nothing but love and support. ! Peter Yates, Lawrence Morton and Dorrance Stalvey: I never got to meet you, but I will try to make you proud. ! Alice for a beautiful decade. You showed me the world and made me who I am today. ! Viktoria for your consistency and generosity in love. ! Belgica for reasons I will never be able to explain. iv EPIGRAPHS I write, and talk, in order to find out what I think. ~ Susan Sontag “To be alive is just this pouring in and out. Find, lose, demand, obsess, move head slightly closer. Try to swim without thinking how strong it looks. Try to do what you do without mockery of our heartbroken little era.” ~ Anne Carson “I don’t work on the poem, I work on the poet.” ~ Stanley Kunitz v TABLE OF CONTENTS Signature Page............................................................................................................................iii Dedication...................................................................................................................................iv Epigraph......................................................................................................................................v Table of Contents.......................................................................................................................vi List of Figures..........................................................................................................................viii Vita.............................................................................................................................................ix Abstract of the Dissertation.........................................................................................................x Lebenslauf...................................................................................................................................1 I. Conducting...............................................................................................................................5 Basic Physicality.........................................................................................................................9 Analysis / Creating Shorthand Scores.......................................................................................11 Degrees of Interpretation...........................................................................................................18 Objective Conducting...................................................................................................22 Expressive Conducting.................................................................................................24 Finding Subtext: Billone, Tarkovsky, Crazy Horse..................................................................26 II. Teaching................................................................................................................................29 Gordon Gottlieb – Prelude............................................................................................32 Michael Rosen – Craft..................................................................................................34 Steven Schick – Interpretation......................................................................................36 Bernhard Wulff – Metaphysics.....................................................................................42 Jan Williams – Aesthetics.............................................................................................46 Lewis Nielson – Ethics.................................................................................................49 Brian Alegant – Analysis..............................................................................................51 William Arctander O’Brien – Philosophy....................................................................53 vi III. Curating...............................................................................................................................57 Curating Solo Concerts..............................................................................................................60 Junior Recital................................................................................................................61 Senior Recital...............................................................................................................62 Master’s Recital............................................................................................................63 Abschlüßkonzert...........................................................................................................64 DMA Recital No. 1: Breve Historia della Mano..........................................................65 DMA Recital No. 2: Vom Steinen und Sternen...........................................................66 DMA Recital No. 3: Brujo...........................................................................................67
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