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...SMITH San Rafael, Calif...
HAYDN: MASS IN TIME OF WAR (Deutsche Grammophon). This is the first of Haydn's six last Masses, those great, sturdy monuments of faith that look backward musically to Handel and forward to Beethoven. Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform the superb work so deliberately that it seems staid at first but builds slowly to an impressive climax in the Agnus Dei, with its insistent rolls of drums that give the work its popular title, the Paukenmesse or Drum Mass...
...wristwatch have been taken away; his only companions are a pimp and a chicken thief, and he spends his time reading Balzac's La Comédie Humaine. The joke, of sorts, was on Rhadames Trujillo, 22, multimillionaire son of the Dominican Republic's late dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Rhadames and three others of the high-living Trujillo clan suddenly face a court fight over the enormous fortune-estimated at something like $100 million-that they carried out of the Dominican Republic between 1930 and 1961, when the Trujillo reign ended...
...Trujillo clan itself-precisely which ones, the lawyers were not saying. But the talk around the Dominican Republic suggested a daughter of the dictator's first marriage, Flor de Oro, and Trujillo's second wife, Bienvenida Ricardo, both believed to be in Montreal; two children, Rafael and Yolanda, born to longtime mistress, Lina Lovatón, all three of whom live in Miami. The story goes that they are on the outs with Rhadamés and the rest for hogging all the loot...
...three years since Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was assassinated, the Dominican Republic has been governed by one interim President (forced to resign), one seven-man provisional Council (which held elections), one constitutional President (toppled by military coup), and one civilian triumvirate of which not a single original member remains. The last of the three men who took over administration of the unhappy little Caribbean nation ten months ago resigned last week. He was Manuel Tavares Espaillat, 40, a cultured, U.S.-educated (Yale) scholar and the only real administrator and planner in the original triumvirate. He quit because he was disgusted...