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7″ single — En busca de una nueva flor (theme song of the XI World Festival of Youth and Students), Argelia Fragoso / Orquesta EGREM (Areíto 45-7053), jacket and disc

Audio Recording

A 7-inch (45 rpm) stereo single with its printed paper picture sleeve. Front sleeve: white ground with the festival emblem — a stylized flower of colored petals (red, yellow, green, blue) ringing a black-and-white globe/grid device — above the title "en busca de una nueva flor" in red; the Areíto logo lower right. Back sleeve: the song's full lyric at left (not reproduced here — see Research Notes), and at right the side-by-side credits, catalog/format line, and recording-studio line; a handwritten "Arús" across the top and a red ring stamp at upper right. Disc: black vinyl with a light-blue label printed with an allover "CUBA 78" and festival-emblem motif; Side B ("CARA B") shown; a handwritten "Arús" on the label.

2025.1.215

Music composed for the XI World Festival of Youth and Students. Title alludes to the festival flower logo, redesigned/modified in each iteration. In the LP collection of Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

45 RPM Record

Music

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection

2025.1

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

Tony Taño

Director

Fernando Acosta

Soprano Saxophonist

Frank Fernández

Keyboard Player

Vicente Rojas Salermo

Orchestration

Miguel Porcel

Lyricist

Ireno García

Lyricist

Areíto

EGREM

1978

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Spanish

Festival logo (a five-petal flower with a globe in the center) lies in the top left corner of the front cover. Underneath, the title, "en busca de una nueva flor," is written in bold red lettering. Areito's logo is printed in the bottom right corner.

En busca de una nueva flor

Argelia Fragoso

Singer

Miguel Porcel

Composer

Ireno García

Lyricist

Spanish

En busca de una nueva flor (instrumental)

Fernando Acosta

Sax soprano

Frank Fernández

Keyboards

Miguel Porcel

Composer

Saxophone

Piano

Note

back of sleeve, vinyl

Arús

This was the owner's last name.

Inscription

Back cover

Canción tema del XI Festival EN BUSCA DE UNA NUEVA FLOR Si tu sed rompiendo las distancias se confunde andando con mi sed y tu aliento se alza hasta tocar el sol en busca de una nueva flor y si tu pecho vela mi descanso y mi andar desata tu canción y tu lucha se abriga en mi corazón en una sola voz: tendremos sueños que tejerle al mar la mansa estrella de la libertad y aquella flor que hay que encontrar, más allá donde el verso será la paz que crece Si tus manos vuelan con mis manos como mil gaviotas que al volar se reparten, viento, so, amor y pan seremos mil gaviotas más que vuelan sobre el mar

Spanish

If your thirst breaking the distances walking is confused with my thirst and your breath rises to touch the sun looking for a new flower and if your chest watches over my rest and my walk unleashes your song and your fight is warm in my heart in one voice: we will have dreams to weave the meek star of liberty to the sea and that flower what to find beyond where the verse will be the peace that grows If your hands fly with my hands like a thousand seagulls that when flying they share, wind, so, love and bread we will be a thousand more seagulls that fly over the sea

Printed

These lyrics are printed on the back cover of the record sleeve.

Front: festival flower-and-globe emblem; "en busca de una nueva flor"; Areíto logo. Back: "Canción tema del XI Festival"; the full song lyric (not transcribed); "CARA A: EN BUSCA DE UNA NUEVA FLOR (Canta: Argelia Fragoso) — Música: Miguel Porcel — Texto: Ireno García · Miguel Porcel"; "CARA B: EN BUSCA DE UNA NUEVA FLOR (Instrumental) — Autor: Miguel Porcel — Solista: Fernando Acosta (saxofón soprano), Frank Fernández (teclados)"; "ORQUESTA EGREM — Director: Tony Taño — Orquestación: Vicente Rojas"; "Productor: Germán Piniella — Técnico de Grabación: Jerzy Belc"; "ESTEREO 45—7053"; "Estudios de Grabaciones: Egrem, Habana, Cuba"; "impreso por lito-pleg"; handwritten owner's mark "Arús"; red ring stamp. Disc label: allover "CUBA 78" / festival-emblem print; "Producido y Distribuido por EGREM – Habana, Cuba"; "45 rpm"; "7053"; "CARA B"; "ESTEREO"; "Canción tema del XI Festival (Instrumental)"; "Orquesta EGREM / Dir. Tony Taño"; "En busca de una nueva flor"; "Autor: Miguel Porcel"; "Solistas: Fernando Acosta (saxofón soprano), Frank Fernández (teclados)"; "Orquestación: Vicente Rojas"; handwritten "Arús."

vinyl, cover

Fair

Areíto

label

EGREM

producer

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

production, acquisition

XI International festival of Youth and Students

This is the official theme-song single of the XI World Festival of Youth and Students (Festival Mundial de la Juventud y los Estudiantes), held in Havana in 1978 — a major Soviet-bloc-aligned international youth gathering hosted by Cuba. The "CUBA 78" disc label and the festival's flower-and-globe emblem (echoed in the title "in search of a new flower") tie the record directly to the event. Produced by EGREM/Areíto, it documents Cuban state cultural production around a flagship international political-cultural occasion.