At first, it wasn't entirely clear to me. Miguel Poveda, a Badalona native "born in Vall d'Hebron," as he says, had no plans to make an album in Catalan. The insistence of Lluís Cabrera, the visionary founder of Taller de Músics, was certainly persistent, as usual. And a series of circumstances converged so that it was released in 2005. Thaw (Discmedi), a beautiful and exciting album in which Poveda sang apples by Sebastià Alzamora, Joan Barceló, Joan Brossa, Enric Casasses, Narciso Comadira, Gabriel Ferraté, Valentín Gómez y Oliver, Maria Mercè Marçal, Joan Margarit, Josep Piera and Jacint Verdaguer. The voice of singer, flexible and generous, and the arrangements by Joan Albert Amargós, Chicuelo, Marcelo Mercadante, Enric Palomar and José Reinoso worked their magic, sometimes more flamenco, other times more jazzy, always impeccable.

In the autumn of 1935, ninety years ago this year, Barcelona was gripped by a wave of enthusiasm for the plays of Federico García Lorca. There were 142 performances of four of his plays in three different theaters: The silly lady, Yerma, Blood Wedding and Doña Rosita the spinster, which was a world premiere. During his stay of about four months in the city to prepare everything, Lorca reunited with Dalí after being estranged for many years. He also met Gala, but he didn't like her and she became jealous.