Word: stuttgart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Cranko, founder of the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, molded it into a company of world rank with his ballets on great classical themes: Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew. Cranko's traditional style stressed drama and athleticism. Ballet audiences were therefore stunned when, after Cranko's sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate...
With mixed expectations, then, New Yorkers turned out at the Metropolitan Opera House last week for Balletdirektor Tetley's debut visit with the Stuttgart and his first full-scale work, Daphnis and Chloë. The choice was an odd one. Daphnis and Chloë has not been a lucky ballet. The 1912 Paris première by Diaghilev's Ballet Russe suffered from underrehearsal and, according to Michel Fokine, who choreographed the work, indifferent dancing by Karsavina and Nijinsky. No one faulted the dancing of Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the 1951 Sadler's Wells revival...
...most sensational, costly and politically explosive trial in West German history opened in Stuttgart last week. Four self-styled urban guerrillas, each handcuffed to a policeman, were ushered into a custom-built, top-security courthouse. There they faced charges on five counts of murder (including those of four U.S. servicemen), 54 counts of attempted murder and multiple counts of bank robbery, arson, bombing, forgery and grand larceny. After the recent murder of West Berlin Supreme Court Judge Giinter von Drenkmann, the kidnaping of Berlin Opposition Leader Peter Lorenz, the bombing of the West German embassy in Stockholm and the Shootout...
Rumors were rife that the gang's supporters would go to extreme lengths to disrupt the trial. A Stockholm newspaper received a letter threatening "unusual actions," including an attack upon Stuttgart with rockets, flamethrowers and mustard gas, if amnesty was not granted. Since two quarts of the deadly gas had mysteriously disappeared from a North German army post a few days earlier, the government sent urgent instructions to all West German hospitals and private doctors on how to treat mustard-gas burns. Authorities were also alarmed when one of the defense lawyers representing the terrorists disappeared shortly before...
...tighten security, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt banned nonofficial visitors from government headquarters in Bonn last week and ordered that an armored car guard the chancellery building day and night. The concrete and steel Stuttgart courthouse is encircled by concentric chain link, barbed-wire and wooden fences. A steel net has been strung across the roof to keep off explosives and prevent helicopter rescue attempts. Hidden cameras monitor every inch of the floodlit complex, and more than 500 policemen share the guard duty. Roadblocks manned by submachine-gun-carrying police seal off the entrances to unauthorized visitors...