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...called the Pathfinder concept. Together the probes will attempt to reckon the position and orbit of Halley's nucleus with a precision impossible from ground-based observations and then beam the data back to the Soviet Union, which will in turn relay the information to European mission control in Darmstadt, West Germany, in time for Giotto's rendezvous on March 13. Precision is of the essence: zeroing in on a nucleus that scientists estimate measures only two to six miles in diameter and is traveling some 154,000 m.p.h. is no mean feat. Without help from Vega...
...fans will be surprised to learn that the talent of German Author Gunter Grass, 56, is not Limited to the printed word. A major retrospective of Grass's visual art-80 etchings, 43 lithographs, 96 drawings and 27 sculptures-has been put together for the first time in Darmstadt. In addition to seeing the fish, snails and cooks that inhabit his earlier books, exhibition visitors who ponder his clay Tablets will get an advance glimpse of the author's next novel, The Rat, set in the spiritually and politically divided Germany of the 1950s. While it may seem...
...Soldaten (The Soldiers). First performed in Cologne in 1965, the work was given its American premiere last week by Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston. With it, an experimental tradition begun by Schoenberg, continued by Alban Berg and refined by avant-gardists of Germany's Darmstadt school of composers in the 1950s comes to a dead end. In fact, that tradition expires in a spectacular artistic auto-da-fé symbolized by the holocaust that is the opera's final scene...
...paradox of Hans Werner Henze extends from his life to his art. A member of the progressive Darmstadt circle of composers after World War II, Henze broke decisively with the avant-garde in the mid-'50s and today sneers at the "utter boredom" of doctrinaire serialism. For all his radical leftist politics, Henze's own music is on the musical right. In a way, he is the Brahms of his day, writing in forms such as symphony, concerto and oratorio, preserving the traditional structures in the ace of the avant-gardist onslaught. Henze has mixed idioms freely throughout...
DIED. Carl Ebert, 93, German-born opera manager and stage director; in Santa Monica, Calif. Originally an actor, Ebert moved into the then relatively new field of opera management in Darmstadt in 1927, with as his assistant Rudolf Bing, who later went on to run New York City's Metropolitan Opera for 22 years. Later, Ebert helped found the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and led the Berlin Municipal Opera before and after the Hitler era (which he spent in Britain and the U.S.) until his retirement...