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...harpsichord; Gervase de Peyer, clarinet: Gerard Schwarz, trumpet; Columbia: $6.98). Two brilliant young American-born singers team up with a superior set of instrumentalists in a glowing recital of vocal music. The mood shifts in a varied repertory that encompasses Schumann's playful duet Das Glück as well as Chausson's haunting Chanson Perpetuelle, sung with grave beauty by Von Stade. Blegen's supple trills whirl with Gerard Schwarz's bright trumpet through Alessandro Scarlatti's aria Se geloso e il mio core...
...generally fictional sagas of personal conversion, complete with an inserted sermon delivered by Billy. By contrast, The Hiding Place is the true story of two pious Dutch Protestant spinsters who hid Jews from the Nazis in their Haarlem home during World War II, and were imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp as a result. The film is drawn from a fast-selling 1971 autobiography of the same title by Corrie ten Boom, one of the sisters. Now 83, she is currently on a speaking tour of the U.S. and Canada...
...accomplished but little-known Houston actress, Jeannette Clift, plays Corrie, Harris portrays her sister Betsie ten Boom and Heckart a prison trusty. The film was shot last year on location in Haarlem and at an unused army camp in England, which was turned into the hell of Ravensbrück, the women's camp where 96,000 lost their lives...
Ovens' Stench. The Hiding Place plunges Into perplexing religious issues, such as whether Christians should disobey the state and whether they should lie or steal to further a good cause. Most important is the age-old quandary of the existence of evil. One Ravensbrück inmate taunts Corrie by saying that a God who did nothing after smelling the stench from the extermination ovens must be either powerless or cruel. Corrie's reply is that "the same God that you are accusing came and lived in the midst of our world. He was beaten, he was mocked...
...ck*ing Jew-boy" [vowels deleted...