Jose Sabre Marroquin | Nostalgia | Brian Paleta

Brian Paleta, Violin
Uriel Rodríguez, Conductor
Orquesta Sinfónica RozSt

José Saber Marroquín. From an early age he began in music and stood out for his prolific production and the variety of his work, both in popular and classical music, which at the end of his life registered more than 150 compositions and 150 more unpublished. He created concert music and film scores. For 23 years he was musical and orchestral director of the Nescafé Musical Magazine, one of the pillar programs of Mexican television, he served as representative and artistic advisor of this program which he covered with his talent and musical knowledge of him. From 1943 to 1965 he had under his artistic direction several of the star programs of XEW AM. He pioneered the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico, where as of 1953 he held various positions with great initiative. He participated as musical director of the 1968 Olympic Games and the 1975 Pan American Games, both held in Mexico. He also composed the fanfares and the official anthem for these games, with the collaboration of Ricardo López Méndez el Vate. In 1937 he toured all of South America and the Antilles accompanying the singer José Mojica on piano and with a large orchestra. On this tour, and with lyrics by Mojica, he composed Nocturnal, a song that today is part of the classic bolero repertoire and is internationally known. In fact, Charlie Haden was awarded the Grammy for his album Nocturne2 which, among other songs, contains Nocturnal. He also made an album called "Land of the Sun" including 8 Saber songs for which he was awarded another Grammy in 2004.
On December 8, 1909, Julia Marroquín Alonso and José Saber Montiel welcomed little José into their home, who from his birth grew up in a musical environment under the tutelage of his father, a well-known conductor and pianist. Later, two more men, Manuel and Jesús, arrived at the home of Julia and José. When he was 5 years old, he began the formal study of music with his father and at the age of six he began to play drums in a group directed by his father and that provided the background for silent films projected at the Othón theater and later at the O'theater. Farrill. At the age of 8 he debuted as a soloist in the Blue Thursdays of the O'Farrill theater playing the xylophone. In addition to the training he received from his father, he took classes with teachers from Potosí Antonio Rodríguez and Gabriel Arriaga. It was at the age of 13 when he took over the management of his father's group by devoting himself to the trade. He was 21 years old when he was hired in Monterrey to direct the Monterrey Casino Jazz Orchestra, he stayed there for a year to later return to San Luis Potosí where he met Gonzalo Curiel who was on tour accompanying Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado. Curiel convinced José Saber Marroquín to take his place on the tour and that is how the young musician from Potosí made his first tour of the Mexican Republic, Central America and the southern United States to California. At the end of 1932 he began to work at the XEW radio station. In 1935 he released his first songs by recording them on RCA Victor with the participation of artists such as Juanito Arvizu, Pedro Vargas, Chucho Martínez Gil and Emilio Tuero, among others, accompanied by the orchestra that José Saber Marroquín had already formed by then. .

José Saber Marroquín arrived in Mexico City in the 1930s and had the opportunity in this city to continue his music studies with maestro Rodolfo Halffter.