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...return home with enough money and publicity to leave the Soviet zone soon afterwards. The East zone police, obviously well informed about the choir's plans, struck a few days after the choir left for Berlin. Schueck's wife was arrested when she went to the Dresden railway station to send some scores to her husband. The same day Frau Niebisch and her eight-year-old daughter disappeared...
Nerves. When they heard about the disappearances, most of the choir decided not to go back to Dresden. One girl who was worried about her mother, and another who was about to be married, went back. Business Manager Pulst argued long and loudly against leaving the East zone, persuaded four more girls to go home. The rest, homesick and afraid of reprisals to their families, faced the uncertainty of getting a living in the West. Said a 27-year-old soprano: "Yes, my family is still in Dresden. The idea that I won't see them for God knows...
West Berlin authorities gave police protection to the terrified group, moved them to a youth home in Wannsee until after their concert. At week's end, three more choir members, all minors, had gone back to Dresden. Also back in Dresden was Business Manager Pulst, about whom Choir-Leaders Schueck and Niebisch had a sharp suspicion: he was a Soviet agent, they thought, had deliberately failed to get West German bookings for the choir, had engineered the arrest of the two wives. The rest of the choir was flown to Frankfurt, where they will give a thanksgiving concert, train...
...Dresden-born Baritone Schoeffler has little taste for his usual role as an operatic "heavy." So far, he figures he has been stabbed or poisoned onstage at least 150 times. He would rather sing in such operas as Meistet-singer and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, where "everyone comes away happy...
...Schoeffler really had had his way, he would have been a conductor, the role he was studying 20 years ago in Dresden when his teacher told him he had a career-making voice. He got his first break in opera that same year in Dresden from Conductor Fritz Busch; he was still singing with the company on the dark day in March 1933 when Hitler's hoodlums broke up Busch's performance of Rigoletto. Soon after Busch left the country, Schoeffler went to Vienna, where he sang throughout the war. Since the war, engagements at opera houses from...