The grumpy owner, the eccentric museum owner – and a treasured piece of history.
For close to 30 years, Stefan Markovitch ruled his Hobart record store, Music Without Frontiers, with curmudgeonly might. By all accounts he was an incorrigible grump with an encyclopaedic enthusiasm for music and
Turns out, he had this effect on a lot of people. “This is something I’ve only recently learnt,” Carmichael adds. “He made us all feel very special. He had these one-on-one relationships. I thought it was just because of me and the festival, because I’d go in there and drop two or three hundred dollars at a time.”
Last April, aged 73, Markovitch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He accepted the news with characteristic stoicism, keeping the diagnosis a secret from his customers. “He only wanted to talk about music in the shop,” Jenny says. He specialised in dropping out. He switched from medicine to science, then from science to art school – and dropped out of that, too . In 1973, he began importing records from the UK, initially to satisfy a desire for music that he and his friends could not find in Hobart. “That really was the start of the business,” Jenny says.
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