Those were hard times and one could jump from a ministry to prison. This is what happened to the Asturian Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811), a politician, scholar, writer, and one of the most prominent figures of the State between the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Now 225 years ago, on April 18, 1801, Jovellanos arrived in a Mallorca that was not then a tourist destination, but a peripheral territory where people who wanted to disappear were sent, and where he was confined for seven years.

The Palma City Council has decided to postpone the celebration of the Angel Sunday scheduled for this Sunday, April 12, due to the forecast of bad weather. The festival will finally be moved to Sunday, May 10, as reported by Cort.

The Palma City Council's Governing Board has approved the preliminary design for the rehabilitation of the Casas del Retiro, a municipal building of significant heritage value that will be integrated into Palma's future Botanical Garden and will house the Bellver Forest Interpretation Center. Deputy City Council spokesperson Llorenç Bauzá explained that the project will have a budget of €2,017,000, financed by the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS), and an estimated maximum completion time of 13 months.

Special, very special, was the fourth day of the Symphonic Summers, that year after year The parade ground at Bellver Castle was packed to the rafters. This was because it was the concert with which his colleagues paid musical tribute to Eduardo Bernabéu, the late friend and solo clarinetist of the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra. This circumstance led to an even larger attendance than usual. The concert began with theOpening of The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, while the tribute began right after, with the performance of Clarinet Concerto K. 622 in A major, Also by Mozart. This was the last complete piece written by the genius from Salzburg, which, like all those where the clarinet was the great protagonist, was dedicated to his friend and lodge companion, the virtuoso of the instrument, Anton Stadler, also known as "the miracle of Bohemia." He was the one who, together with Theodor Lotz, made the so-called bass clarinet, longer, of four added notes, thus completing up to four octaves. And it was with this model that Joan Enric Lluna displayed the talent and the multiple possibilities of such an important instrument in an orchestra, yet so relegated as a protagonist. In the first movement, we find it as a miscellany, which allows us to enjoy its entire varied and splendorous range of colors. Luna showed it to us with a precision and purity that even surprised us with such evident potential. The primordial moment came with the simple and wonderful Adage, of an emotion that could not have made the moment more beautiful. Luna acknowledged the applause with the interpretation of Capriccio, also for Mozart, also for Slater, also for Bernabéu.