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...DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS by Jorge Amado. 553 pages. Knopf...
...food. Chicken in coconut milk-vatapá-then a white night under the stars. These constitute life in the Brazilian state of Bahia, according to its most celebrated writer, Jorge Amado. They are also the fixed points in the remarkable history of his latest heroine, Dona Flor...
...proprietress of the Cooking School of Savor and Art, pretty, plump Dona Flor is a well-loved member of the community. She is also pitied because of her impulsive marriage to Vadinho, one of the great gamblers and womanizers in all Brazil. The novel begins at carnival time with Vadinho's sudden death while dancing the samba in drag, "with that exemplary enthusiasm he brought to everything he did except work...
...even his friend Leander, who in the end turns against his sneaky wiles. Leander, the ostensible hero, is altogether a mediocre guy; he manages to fall truly in love with equally dull Silvia (Demetra Striggles), who luckily stands to inherit an enormous fortune from her fractious father (Tony Maier). Dona Sirena the matchmaker (Lucy Raudenbush), a magnificent grande dame whose social position is somewhat frayed for lack of funds, turns a blind, pragmatic eye to the goings-on of her niece Columbine (Anne Pederson). Miss Pederson's voice is sometimes weak, but she plays a very hot little piece...
...advantage of the situation to reveal a dynamic power and expressiveness that no one who heard the first half of the concert would have guessed the singers possessed. Particularly striking were the crescendo-decrescendos in the Sanctus, the contrasts in the Benedictus "Osanna in Excelsis," and especially the pianissimo "Dona Nobis Pacem" in which the singers produced one of those beautiful, sensuous sounds that are pleasurable in themselves, independent of melodic or harmonic movement...