{"id":219675,"date":"2019-06-20T23:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T03:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=219675"},"modified":"2019-06-20T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T03:38:53","slug":"friends-remember-enormously-talented-toronto-musician-adam-litovitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/20\/friends-remember-enormously-talented-toronto-musician-adam-litovitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends remember ‘enormously talented’ Toronto musician Adam Litovitz"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Canadian filmmaker, musician and broadcaster Sook-Yin Lee, his close friend and collaborator, tweeted a link to details for the service at Steeles Memorial Chapel. (File photo<\/a>: Sook-Yin Lee\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO \u2014 A funeral service will be held Friday in northwest Toronto for musician, composer and writer Adam Litovitz, whose diverse talents and thoughtful, whimsical spirit touched many in the arts community.<\/p>\n

Canadian filmmaker, musician and broadcaster Sook-Yin Lee, his close friend and collaborator, tweeted a link to details for the service at Steeles Memorial Chapel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so blessed you were in my life,\u201d Lee wrote on Twitter, referring to Litovitz as \u201ca pure light.\u201d<\/p>\n

His obituary on the funeral home site says Litovitz died on Sunday. He was 36.<\/p>\n

Toronto Police had reported Litovitz missing and later confirmed he had been found dead and that there was no criminal investigation.<\/p>\n

Litovitz and Lee created many arts projects together, including dance performances and their band JOOJ, which released a self-titled debut album in 2015.<\/p>\n

They also worked together on her feature films, including the romantic comedy-drama \u201cYear of the Carnivore\u201d and the supernatural drama \u201cOctavio is Dead!\u201d<\/p>\n

For \u201cYear of the Carnivore\u201d they shared a 2011 Genie Award nomination for best original score with Buck 65.<\/p>\n

For \u201cOctavio is Dead!\u201d Litovitz and Lee shared a 2019 Canadian Screen Award nomination for best song for \u201cGhost of Love (Onakabazien Remix).\u201d<\/p>\n

Litovitz, who was born in Toronto, was also a poet, story editor and writer on films. He was the son of Allan Litovitz and the late Malca Litovitz, a poet.<\/p>\n

Toronto-based cartoonist Chester Brown, who was close friends with Litovitz, said he was \u201cenormously talented\u201d and \u201cimpressed everyone who met him.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he had been battling depression and was questioning his career in recent months, he remained a gentle spirit, Brown added in a phone interview.<\/p>\n

The word \u201cgentle\u201d is a common one Litovitz’s friends and colleagues have been using to describe him in their tributes on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only times I can remember ever seeing him angry were when someone, say in print or verbally attacked Sook-Yin or one of his friends,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if someone would attack him, he would not react in anger to a situation like that. He would just be reasonable. Very mild-mannered, sweet-tempered, intelligent, bookworm, very well-read.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 A funeral service will be held Friday in northwest Toronto for musician, composer and writer Adam Litovitz, whose …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":219677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-victoria-ahearn","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219678,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219675\/revisions\/219678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}