[NewMusic] remembering Toyoji with music this thursday

[John Ingle]

Please forgive this concert talk on the discussion list: I hope that you all will understand.

After Toyoji's death and Miya Masaoka's cancellation (due also to a death in her family), I planned on calling Sarah at 21 Grand and cancelling the concert scheduled for this Thursday, April 24th. After talking with some of the other musicians, I think we should still have the concert and turn it into unofficial heartfelt celebration of our dear friend Toyoji Tomita. I'm sure there will be other official concerts and memorials in the future.

Please come out if you can. We will give all of the musician's proceeds to the Marianne Tomita McDonald fund.

Anyone who wants to join the group can bring their instruments and sit in. I especially would like those of you who were close to him musically to feel welcome to participate, but anyone who wants to join will have that opportunity. There are other interesting concerts that night, so time permitting (how late can we go at 21 Grand???? Sarah????), please consider coming by after your other gigs.

I will see many of you tommorrow at Toyoji's memorial at Chapel of the Chimes. Feel free to talk to me if you want to participate on Thursday.

Again, please forgive this neglect of list protocol and understand that this is my response to the grief of Toyoji's passing. I know that Toyoji told my father that he would look after me, and he did do that like a surrogate dad. He had a big heart is already sorely missed.

sincerely,
John Ingle

(I'm not regularly on e-mail at this point
but can be reached at 510-552-5195)

concert announcement follows;
Please join John Ingle, matt ingalls, Kjell Nordeson, Liz Allbee, and Tim Perkis and guests for a night of improvised music this Thursday, April 24th at 21 Grand.

(note: We regret that Miya Masaoka had to cancel due to a death in her family; we will bring Miya back out to perform with this group in the future)

This concert is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Toyoji Tomita. The musician's ticket sales will be donated to his family.

We will be inviting other musicians from Toyoji's life to join in this unofficial but heartfelt memorial. We hope that other musicians will consider coming out to 21 Grand after the other bay area new music concerts that night...

Thu 4/24 8:30 PM 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]



--- On Sat, 4/19/08, Tom Bickley <tbickley at metatronpress.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Bickley <tbickley at metatronpress.com>
> Subject: [NewMusic] Toyoji's obituary
> To: "Bay Area New Music Discussion Group" <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
> Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008, 11:21 PM
> Dear BAnewmus,
> 
> You can view Toyoji's obituary and leave a note there
> by going to
> http://www.sfgate.com/c/obituaries/ and searching on his
> family name
> Tomita.
> 
> Pax et bonum, -Tom
> 
> ---------------
> Tom Bickley, tbickley at metatronpress.com
> http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/tbickley/
> http://www.myspace.com/tbickley
> 
> "In a sense this music is indeed ‘derivative’, but
> it was wrong to
> use this word, which has a pejorative character in
> bourgeois
> criticism. In fact there is no art production that is not
> derived in
> some way from things that went before, and above all there
> is no art
> that is not ‘derived’ from social practice. "
> -Cornelius Cardew
> 
> 
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