The only person who has a monument on Palma's Paseo del Born wasn't a king, a general, a politician, or a saint. Nor was he born in Mallorca, but he loved it with all his soul. He was an artist: a world-famous musician of Korean origin who composed his country's national anthem and settled on the island, where he created and conducted his orchestra, the predecessor of today's Balearic Symphony Orchestra. Let us remember Eaktay Ahn on the 60th anniversary of his death, September 16, 1965.

"Bach will never grow old. The construction of his works is those ideal geometric figures where everything is in its place and there is never a superfluous line," said Fryderyk Chopin. Sir András Schiff, a luxury of many carats, the protagonist of the second concert of the Pollença Festival, began his talk by saying that Bach was the greatest composer of all time and his favorite. It's not very original, but no one has any other choice. Therefore, a good reason to start his performance with the'Aria of the Goldberg Variations. A measured, delicate, as if weightless reading, which made it clear that, once again, we were the fortunate spectators of a memorable evening, and that, furthermore, we had no idea what was coming next. Sir András doesn't like others writing his programs, which he explains much better with the addition of an enigmatic element. The truth is that two days earlier he had given a concert in Torroella de Montgrí and more or less repeated the composers, but I think he only repeated one of the pieces from our batch. Intermezzo by Brahms and the Bach encore. Let it be clear, therefore, that it is not difficult to predict what we will feel, it is simply impossible.