Mario Porta Fernandez - Instrumental: Mario Fernandez Porta y Su PianoOne of Cuba's most famous composers, Mario Fernandez Porta was a self taught musician who did not read music, yet wrote some of the most famous tunes in Cuban music history. He was also a wonderfully interpretative pianist, as this rare album recorded in the early 1970's suggests. It was at these wonderful sessions that he paid tribute to the great American songwriters he so revered. All selections newly remastered.

packed with songs that are infectious by way of their sound

the late Chauncey Holt

including a brief instrumental insert from the very distant past

we see a melange of events from the heroine's life that actually occurred over many decades

An adventure to recreate and perform the words that the moralists pointed out as "obscene"

"Pill" and "New Calm Pt

rich in emotions and ideas

The natural telepathy between the musicians can be heard throughout 'Phantom Threshold' as they cook up an enticing blend of textured string and keyboard sounds

Both were fierce proponents for American music as composers

My uncle sang

She never follows

That program concluded with an explosive account of the suite from Stravinsky's Firebird ballet