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(Prensa Latina - Cumbancha) Havana, Cuba - True greats in Cuban music, both past and present, appear on eight
discs burned by EGREM Studio and presented on its 40th anniversary, along with
special music stamps and a documentary, "The Treasure of the Island" by Ileana
Garcia. Works by the Matamoros Trio, the National Ignacio Pineiro Septet, Maria
Teresa Vera, Barbarito Diez and Abelardo Barroso are among the Cuban musical
traditions preserved in the four decades of EGREM, Cuban Music Institute
vice-president Jesus Gomez Cairo noted.
The presentation ceremony included
cancellation of stamps with the images of Julio Cuevas, Orlando Guerra (Cascarita),
Carlos Puebla and Francisco Repilado (Compay Segundo).
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