Item 144 - Postcard from Donald Tovey to R. C. Trevelyan

1 item. Postcard with a black and white photograph of the refectory of the monastery at Poblet

c/o Casals, San Salvador, Prov. de Tarragona. - Is just copying the recapitulation of the Nereid theme which leads to the cave scene [in "The Bride of Dionysus"]. Minos was 'very troublesome', and Tovey had to rewrite the music to a speech in Act I before he could work on his farewell speech, but after than all went well. Now much happier with the Labyrinth scene, which was 'the worst part of the opera'. 'This place & house & people are most Dionysiac' [is staying with Pablo Casals and Guilhermina Suggia]; they drove to Poblet, shown on the postcard, the day before yesterday.