I read and appreciated all the articles published on these pages of ARGIA magazine, and from these pages I would like to send you the words of thanks. In the marginal areas of the cultural system, which are often undervalued, you have distinguished yourself in the promotion and organisation of culture, and I would like to underline and thank you for your generous contribution to Basque culture with these words of farewell.

As soon as we heard the first notes of your whistle, the dancers pulled our chest and we climbed ten centimeters; we got up and we went out to the dance. You touch hard, shiny, and you push us to dance the same way. I lived in the clocks, extending the notes in the race completely back and patiently waiting for the legs of the cabrons to fall; I put music at the service of dance, to the dancers who opened the way to give us the best of us; I accompanied us with the tamboril in the difficult times and I sparked the whistle in the weird passages of the dancers.

You were engaged in economic management by profession, and that is that you applied the same precision in the organization of dance. We were surprised to use innovative forms of business management in the organization of dance, music and culture. We dedicate resources, pampering and similar attentions to the great football players, especially the dancers, and the body builders in general. Every time discrimination between professionals and amateurs takes place, I agree with you Jose Inazio. I have never met a professional who works with the will and power of perfection that you have demonstrated. Whatever land you've gotten into, no, it was the only way you had to know how to do things.

With the confidence and support that inspired you, you brought a whole generation of dancers and txistularis to the highest level. You were pioneering and courageous, and you made us proud of our flow and helped us to be ambitious with music and dance as simple instruments. Excited by your labor discipline, generosity and unmeasured attention, some of us owe that your vital trajectory has joined the world of dance and music. You made us believe that dance, besides being a joyful fun, is an important expression of Basque culture, and you taught us to fill it with the utmost dignity and responsibility to represent our culture. Agur Jose Inazio, agur. A greeting and an honor.

* Jose Inazio Sarasua Garate, director of the Band of Txistularis of Elgoibar and Haritz Euskal Dantzari Taldea, great director and organizer of many groups, associations and events of Basque music, dance, culture and sport, died on 11 April at the age of 60. n