{"id":26632,"date":"2018-11-29T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26632"},"modified":"2018-11-29T04:15:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T10:15:20","slug":"apsu-music-professor-connects-with-a-brazilian-greats-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/11\/29\/apsu-music-professor-connects-with-a-brazilian-greats-family\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU music professor connects with a Brazilian great\u2019s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Austin Peay State University (APSU)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Austin Peay State University (APSU) professor&#8217;s story starts simply enough, with a world record assembly of double reeds in Granada, Spain. About 550 oboists and bassoonists climbed the bleachers around 11:00pm August 31st at the International Double Reed Society\u2019s annual conference.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_439453\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APSU-assistant-profestor-Dr.-Amy-Gillick.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-439453\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-439453\" title=\"Dr. Amy Gillick, assistant music professor at Austin Peay State University (APSU), earned a faculty research grant to translate the essays of Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APSU-assistant-profestor-Dr.-Amy-Gillick-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Amy Gillick, assistant music professor at Austin Peay State University (APSU), earned a faculty research grant to translate the essays of Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-439453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Amy Gillick, assistant music professor at Austin Peay State University (APSU), earned a faculty research grant to translate the essays of Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Guinness World Records soon will recognize the concert as the biggest ever performed with oboes and bassoons. It was one for the record books.<\/p>\n<p>But the same night, before the concert, one of the bassoonists \u2013 an Austin Peay State University professor \u2013 made a connection that will affect her life for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of one of Brazil\u2019s great composers, Francisco Mignone, connected with Dr. Amy Gillick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of an unusual, unexpected connection,\u201d Gillick, assistant professor of music at Austin Peay, said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really expecting to have a personal connection, but it ended up being really special for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Who Was Mignone?<\/h3>\n<p>Gillick, who has attended several IDRS conferences, this year gave a presentation about Mignone, and her doctoral dissertation at UCLA also focused on Mignone.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Granada Double Reed Band\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MeHm5QDbRnI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEver since (the dissertation) I\u2019ve been interested in his music; he wrote a lot for my instrument, the bassoon,\u201d Gillick said. \u201cHe was probably the second most popular composer in Brazil behind (Heitor) Villa-Lobos, who most musicians know. But most people outside Brazil don\u2019t know Mignone at all. That\u2019s been my academic goal is to get more people to know about what he did in his music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mignone lived from 1897-1986, and his notable pieces span from 1921-1982. He was named Brazilian composer of the year in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>[320left]\u201cHis music really follows all of the different things that happened during the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, the romantic sounds during the end of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century \u2026 the popular sounds from street bands, from street corner musicians,\u201d Gillick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe included some of the music you\u2019d hear in silent movies. And then midcentury, everything turned very modernist. At the end of his life, he mixed everything up, so you have the nationalistic, the indigenous, the jazz, the silent movies, the romantic. He was like a painter, and he\u2019d take whatever color he wanted and use it,\u201d stated Gillick.<\/p>\n<h3>Making The Connection<\/h3>\n<p>Gillick\u2019s presentation this year was named \u201cCartas de Amor \u2013 The Love Story of Francisco Mignone,\u201d and it explored the warmth and playfulness of his relationship with his second wife, Maria Josephina, as seen in love letters and the subsequent warmth and playfulness in his music. His first wife, Liddy Chiafarelli, died years earlier in a plane crash.<\/p>\n<p>Gillick translated a few of Maria Josephina\u2019s love letters from Portuguese to English after his daughter, Anete Rubin, published them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_439454\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Brazilian-composer-Francisco-Mignone-and-his-daughter.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-439454\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-439454\" title=\"Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone and his daughter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Brazilian-composer-Francisco-Mignone-and-his-daughter-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone and his daughter\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-439454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone and his daughter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOn a whim, I tried to find his daughter to see if she was online,\u201d Gillick said. \u201cI went on Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The night before the love letters presentation, Rubin responded: \u201cOh, wow. How did you find me?\u201d Rubin asked Gillick for photos and video from the presentation so she could show her mother, now 95 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom that I started talking to the daughter more,\u201d Gillick said.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Next<\/h3>\n<p>Toward the end of his life, Mignone wrote a collection of essays and musical critiques. Gillick asked Rubin if she could translate them to English. She granted the wish.<\/p>\n<p>South American composers usually didn\u2019t have international publishers, so \u201ceither they\u2019d just publish them locally or people would just photocopy, photocopy, photocopy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping that once I get that done, I\u2019ll show it to her, and she\u2019ll want to publish an English version,\u201d Gillick said. \u201cIt\u2019s something nobody has done, so it\u2019s exciting to me to be the first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[320right]Austin Peay recently also awarded Gillick a faculty research grant to work on the translation. She hopes she can get somebody more fluent in Portuguese to help her with the translation before she travels to Brazil to show the Mignone family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I did get to go down to Brazil, I\u2019d be bothering his daughter, seeing if I could get some of these things that aren\u2019t published to bring them back,\u201d Gillick said. \u201cI have all the titles of the things that he\u2019s written, but I don\u2019t have the actual music. I know they exist somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also hopes she can meet Mignone\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a dynamo, she still performs, she\u2019s a pianist, and she\u2019s recording a CD in a couple of months,\u201d Gillick said. \u201cI hope to get a chance to meet her.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>To Learn More<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For more about Dr. Amy Gillick, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYQOcfV%2B2KUHazcOX%2BCKVIjxTJ2Z7WV1KZDZHal5GaK9qRZkdu2lt3l%2FX54X81qBTuIWqp4aYjqiu&amp;G=0&amp;R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amygillick.com&amp;I=20181128130007.000000cfa7ff%40mail6-43-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZmMyZGY3M2RhNmNjZWYyNTRkMDk0ZDs%3D&amp;S=JYphZAJa9vJLcn0DhrJ0b-vPeCmgDaVhPaMFpVRl11s\" >www.amygillick.com<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYQOcfV%2B2KUHazcOX%2BCKVIjxTJ2Z7WV1KZDZHal5GaK9qRZkdu2lt3l%2FX54X81qBTuIWqp4aYjqiu&amp;G=0&amp;R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amygillick.com&amp;I=20181128130007.000000cfa7ff%40mail6-43-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZmMyZGY3M2RhNmNjZWYyNTRkMDk0ZDs%3D&amp;S=JYphZAJa9vJLcn0DhrJ0b-vPeCmgDaVhPaMFpVRl11s\" >. She performs some of Mignone\u2019s work, and you can see some of her Mignone writings.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYQOcfV%2B2KUHazcOX%2BCKVIjxTJ2Z7WV1KZDZHal5GaK9qRZkdu2lt3l%2FX54X81qBTuIWqp4aYjqiu&amp;G=0&amp;R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amygillick.com&amp;I=20181128130007.000000cfa7ff%40mail6-43-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZmMyZGY3M2RhNmNjZWYyNTRkMDk0ZDs%3D&amp;S=JYphZAJa9vJLcn0DhrJ0b-vPeCmgDaVhPaMFpVRl11s\" >For more about Austin Peay\u2019s Department of Music, go to <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYQOcfV%2B2KUHazcOX%2BCKVIjxTJ2Z7WV1KZDZHal5GaK9qRZkdu2lt3l%2FX54X81qBTuIWqp4aYjqiu&amp;G=0&amp;R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apsu.edu%2Fmusic&amp;I=20181128130007.000000cfa7ff%40mail6-43-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZmMyZGY3M2RhNmNjZWYyNTRkMDk0ZDs%3D&amp;S=RJV4eyJfwZEzUkYTi_CVIv0WTVz_JK7P2jcp5JGGMgY\" >www.apsu.edu\/music.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYQOcfV%2B2KUHazcOX%2BCKVIjxTJ2Z7WV1KZDZHal5GaK9qRZkdu2lt3l%2FX54X81qBTuIWqp4aYjqiu&amp;G=0&amp;R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apsu.edu%2Fmusic&amp;I=20181128130007.000000cfa7ff%40mail6-43-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZmMyZGY3M2RhNmNjZWYyNTRkMDk0ZDs%3D&amp;S=RJV4eyJfwZEzUkYTi_CVIv0WTVz_JK7P2jcp5JGGMgY\" >To learn more about the International Double Reed Society, including videos from the 2018 conference in Granada, visit <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=5eXH0qSKdBRphS6WO4YlQwwSTi8wtQOqejFjZKiddbCzZ5Bbl4XDYQOcfV%2B2KUHazcOX%2BCKVIjxTJ2Z7WV1KZDZHal5GaK9qRZkdu2lt3l%2FX54X81qBTuIWqp4aYjqiu&amp;G=0&amp;R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idrs.org&amp;I=20181128130007.000000cfa7ff%40mail6-43-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZmMyZGY3M2RhNmNjZWYyNTRkMDk0ZDs%3D&amp;S=577NGN71jrdAYsGo6-e1pPG47H-0siCbhsz5DlvRmBc\" >www.idrs.org.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN &#8211; The Austin Peay State University (APSU) professor&#8217;s story starts simply enough, with a world record assembly of double reeds in Granada, Spain. 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