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...choir was now really frightened, but it had no prospects for making a living in West Germany. It jumped at a chance to sing at the big Titania Palast in the U.S. sector of Berlin. The members hoped to 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...
...December, when Christmas carols were banned by the Russian military government, RIAS's Uncle Tobias (the RIAS equivalent of Uncle Don) invited children to sing carols in the huge Titania Palast. More than 5,000 showed up. Two repeat programs had to be held and RIAS beamed the show "especially for the benefit of those Kinder not fortunate enough to sing carols this Christmas...
...Fifth Symphony to his satisfaction. One-third of the orchestra was new, and he had only two days to rehearse it. He had arrived from Switzerland to find that his annotated scores had disappeared from his Potsdam home. But the concert had been postponed once and the Titania Palast was nearly sold out. He decided to go on with...
...combat infantrymen from the 253rd Infantry, 63rd Division, who comprise the G.I. version of the old favorite, have done 50 performances to date before some 56,000 troops. The show has appeared in Heidelberg at the world-famed Stadt Theater, in Mannheim at the onetime luxurious UFA Palast, at the Walhalla Theater in Wiesbaden and the Liberty and Montgomery Theaters in Kassel...
...clear inference was that he had to say it because his own people were full of anxiety about the way the war with Russia was dragging. The millions at their radios, the thousands who packed Berlin's Sport-palast, the few dozen handpicked disabled veterans who sat close to the podium where Hitler spoke-all knew that this war had already taken a terrible toll in lives and hardship. He had to say it because he himself was full of anxiety lest British and U.S. aid make the war drag even more...