#toshi ichiyanagi

[davidhudson]

Happy 92nd, Yoko Ono.

With Toshi Ichiyanagi (at the piano) and Toshi Mayuzumi in New York in 1961.

[garadinervi]

Concert : 20-21, Feat. Toshi Ichiyanagi, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Mieko Shiomi, Tōru Takemitsu, (Program, CD), ECJC 016, Tokyo, 2001 [Fondazione Bonotto, Colceresa (VI)]

[ozkar-krapo]

V/A

"Extended Voices"

(LP. Odyssey. 1967) [US]

[theprofessorofdesire]

Yoko Ono with Toshi Ichiyanagi (at piano) and Toshi Mayuzumi

Chambers Street Loft, 112 Chambers Street, New York, 1961

[shihlun]

Toshi Ichiyanagi

- Music for "Confessions Among Actresses"

1971

[radiophd]

toshi ichiyanagi -- flowers blooming in summer

[thomasmartinnutt]

Toshi Ichiyanagi. IBM for Merce Cunningham, 1960

[rhapsodynew]

#love story

One soul for two.

58 years ago, on November 9, 1966, John Lennon first met Yoko Ono at an art show in London, where she presented her exhibition "Unfinished Paintings and Objects". To this day, many believe that this was the beginning of the end of the holiday era called the Beatles.

Without realizing it, he had long been looking for a woman who looked like his frivolous mother Julia and domineering aunt Mimi, who raised him. Everything was smooth in his marriage with his wife Susan — she did not burden him with herself, did not bother him with conversations, cooked well and was great in bed. Another man would have carried such a woman in his arms, but not Lennon. He lacked madness, passion, hooliganism. Critics will later write about this period of John's life:

"When you get everything in your youth, life becomes insanely boring and insipid. You will involuntarily start looking for adventures."

They first met in November 1966. Lennon, on the recommendation of a friend, went to the Indica gallery for an exhibition of "anti-art". The spacious hall was crowded, everyone was talking about something, discussing the latest news. John has always resisted this society of snobs and mawkish intellectuals. Out of boredom, he decided to take a walk and suddenly came across an inscription: "Beat it up." Lennon wanted to carry out his plan, but a voice called out to him: "Only for five shillings." That's what Yoko said.

This was the first time he saw the woman of his whole life, but he did not attach much importance to the fateful acquaintance. And the very next morning I received my first message from her — a book where She talked about the world order, the meaning of life and all that, which the famous musician, who had had enough of the love of the audience, did not care about. From that day on, the persistent Japanese woman continued to attack John with notes, calls and sudden meetings.

It was not the first time that the Japanese woman bewitched men with her unflattering beauty. She has already had two marriages under her belt — the first with the talented but poor composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, the second with producer Anthony Cox, who pulled Yoko out of depression several times, but, alas, did not deserve her love. The couple divorced as soon as Lennon's muse managed to win over his genius.

Susan immediately suspected something was wrong and demanded an explanation from John. He waved it off, saying that she was a crazy artist. But Yoko did not even think about giving up, she bent her line until Lennon's marriage finally fell apart. Leaving his wife, he shouted in his heart that their son Julian was the result of an extra bottle of whiskey. Then it seemed to Lennon that he had finally found true freedom. He would later say that Yoko had replaced all those who had left his life and forced him to look at himself and the world around him differently.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr still remember the day when Ono first entered the recording studio with Lennon. John didn't even want to listen to his friends who tried to explain to him that a woman didn't belong here. "She didn't know a damn thing about music, but she was telling Paul how to sing and me how to play the drums. We were furious, but there was nothing we could do about it. John didn't seem to hear us," Ringo said in an interview. In 1970, the legendary Liverpool Four broke up.

The band's business had not been good for a long time, the Beatles stopped writing new songs and were engaged in creativity separately, but millions of fans around the world refused to believe that the former team was no more. The angry audience immediately blamed Yoko for everything. The newspapermen happily picked up on this idea, and at the same moment headlines appeared in the press: "The Black Witch destroyed the Beatles", "The devil possessed the Liverpool four," but Lennon didn't care about it either: they completely dissolved into each other, even looked the same: shapeless clothes, round glasses and long Her hair was parted in the middle.

Shortly before the breakup of The Beatles, Lennon and Yoko set up their own studio where they could create whatever they wanted. It is here that John will record his famous album Imagine. Later, critics would recognize him as the best musician's record, and the real "Beatlemans" would grab their heads and curse his Japanese muse with renewed vigor.

In 1969, the mad lovers will get married in Gibraltar, the ceremony will last a record 72 minutes. And again, all traditions will be broken, it's not Yoko who will take John's last name, but he will take hers. Back in Amsterdam, the happy newlyweds will rent a presidential suite in one of the city's hotels, change into pajamas and... call together journalists. This "recumbent conference" lasted for several days, as the couple fought for world peace.

They were inseparable for four years, but the family idyll ended when Lennon noticed another woman at a party in honor of the election of the next American president. Tipsy, John took the guest into the next room and made love to her. Like a true Japanese woman, Yoko did not make scandals for her husband in public, but only asked him to hand over the flower and say that she still loves him.

John spent the next year and a half in Los Angeles, where It allowed him everything he loved so much: alcohol, fun, women. She even picked up her secretary, the pretty Mei Pang, as a lover. Lennon was happy at first: "You are the most understanding woman in the world," he told his wife on the phone.

Loneliness quickly got tired, John wanted to return, but Yoko was adamant. To her husband's pleas, she replied sharply: "You are not ready yet." As Mei Pang later told me, it all ended abruptly. Ono called her and said that she had found a person who would help John quit smoking. So Lennon came home. Reconciliation with his wife ended with the conception of a child, whom both had long despaired of waiting for after several miscarriages. The birth of Sean's son finally put everyone in their place.

Now John was tinkering with the baby, and Yoko was arranging exhibitions and buying up expensive real estate with the money left over from the Beatles ships. Friends often teased Lennon. "You sing about freedom, a world without property, and you live in a six-room apartment with separate rooms for furs and shoes." John himself had long been sick of such a life, but how could he contradict a woman he loved to distraction.

In 1980, the former Beatle would record the last Double Fantasy album in collaboration with Yoko Ono, and a week later he would be shot by a mad fan Mark Champion. In an interview, Lennon's killer will say that he thought John was a god, but at some point he came down to earth and became an ordinary person. "Then it seemed to me that I was going to shoot the picture on the album cover, a two—dimensional celebrity without real feelings," Champ confesses to reporters while already in prison. Former detractors will suddenly begin to sympathize with Yoko and feel sorry for the woman who lost the best man. But It will not even think of grieving.

A week after her husband's death, she will put up for auction his letters and albums, and six months later the media will tell that the eccentric Japanese woman has remarried. However, this marriage will be short-lived.

[nanabs707]

manon qui compare l'opéra de ICHIYANAGI Toshi et Casimir c'est super drôle en sachant que ce matin elle disait que ça l'avait trauma enfant

[spaceintruderdetector]

VA/Experimental Music Of Japan1957-67

00:00 A1. Toshiro Mayuzumi + Makoto Moroi - Variations Sur [7] 14:52 A2. Toru Takemitsu - Sky, Horse And Death (Concrete-Music) 18:18 A3. Joji Yuasa - Projection Esemplastic (For White-Noise) 26:00 B1. Toshiro Mayuzumi - Campanology (For Multi-Piano) 34:04 B2. Toshi Ichiyanagi - Situation (For Biwa, Koto, Violin, Double Bass, Piano And Multiplier) 40:45 B3. Maki Ishii - Hamon-Ripples (For Chamber Ensemble, Violin And Taped Music)

[guywithbotheyes]

Toshi Ichiyanagi. IBM for Merce Cunningham, 1960

[worldsandemanations]

Toshi Ichiyanagi. IBM for Merce Cunningham, 1960

[zarinamuhammad]

Toshi Ichiyanagi 一柳慧 / 'Music For Living Space' 1969

[koshigurajumy]

Toshi Ichiyanagi / 一柳慧 - Eros + Massacre / エロス+虐殺 (Soundtrack) Film: Eros + Massacre / エロス+虐殺 (1969) Dir: Yoshishige Yoshida / 吉田喜重

[shihlun]

The Work of Kisho Kurokawa: Capsule / Metabolism / Spaceframe /Metamorphose (1970)

Design: Kiyoshi Awazu

[protoslacker]

GEN HIRANO Toshi Ichiyanagi - Time Sequence

opus3863b

Toshi Ichiyanagi passed away at 89 years on Ocober 7th. I am often chicken when it come to seeking out the avant-garde, but this performance is really stunning. There are several other video from the same concert, but I don’t see any information as to the venue.