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PICTURES
THE GROUP
Boban Markovic,
trumpet,
vocals
Marko
Markovic, Jovica Ajdarevic, Srdjan Spasic:
trumpet
Durak Demirov: saxophone
Dragoljub Eminovic: bass tuba
Isidor Eminovic,
Goran Spasic,
Asim Ajdinovic,
Sasa Alisanovic:
flic
Nedzad Zumberovic: tapan
Asmet Eminovic: percussion
INFORMATION
DATE:
22 JULY 2004
TIME: 9,15 PM
PLACE:
Courtyard of Honour,
Torrechiara Castle
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BOBAN MARKOVIC ORKESTAR
Gipsy Party
FESTIVAL DI TORRECHIARA 2004
 “If
Clinton didn’t play the saxophone we’d all be dead today”. According
to an anecdote, hard to verify, it was the gypsies who saved Serbia
from complete destruction. Indeed, they say it was actually the American
President Bill Clinton’s appreciation of gypsy music (himself an enthusiastic
saxophonist) which spared Serbia from final bombardments.
Whatever actually happened, it is no doubt thanks to gypsies that the
great tradition of brass music has always remained alive in the Balkans,
from the Ottoman Empire through the regimes of Tito and Milosevic up
to the present day.
Boban Markovic Orkestar is a brass band which since its inception,
about twenty years ago, has nurtured the dream of conquering the world
with a fire very different from that of weapons: the party spirit. The
members of the group live in Vladicin Han in southern Serbia.
Thanks to their involvement, together with Goran Bregovic, in making
the soundtrack for the acclaimed motion pictures by Emir Kusturica (Underground,
Arizona Dream), the Boban Markovic Orkestar has been among the
most popular groups in Serbia and one of the most recognised and admired
in Europe for more than 10 years. This success has borne fruit in the
recognition they’ve received, including prizes they won (“Golden Trumpet”,
“First Trumpet” and “Best Orchestra”) at the Guca festival, one of the
most important in Serbia.
Ever since he was a boy the leader of the orchestra, Boban Markovic,
dreamed of becoming a famous trumpeter and travelling the world. His
forebears got there first because his grandfather, the legendary Pavle,
had played for the king of Serbia who was particularly fond of him.
His father was also a musician and taught him to play, to love and make
others love the trumpet which became, for Boban, an indispensable accessory
of his daily life. Apart from that, his artistic destiny was assured
in a sort of predestination from the date of his birth: 6th May is actually
Djurdjevdan, the legendary gypsy festival!
Apart from Kusturica’s film Boban has made other sound tracks and has
worked with renowned musicians from the Balkan region such as the violinist
Felix Laiko. Two biographical films have been made about him for Hungarian
television: “Boban Markovic at the Music Academy” and “A Portrait of
Boban Markovic”.
Translation by Sarah J Hyde -
www.thelanguage.biz
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