Career
The ballet is loosely based on the poem that inspired Schoenberg piece (although rather loosely) rather than the Biblical story of Hagar. Mississippi Wilson made one television appearance, as Mistress Stahlbaum, the mother of Clara (Gelsey Kirkland), in Mikhail Baryshnikov"s television version of Tschaikovsky"s The Nutcracker, and one film appearance, in the 1973 Public Broadcasting Service documentary American Ballet Theatre: A Close-Up in Time.
She also appeared on Merv Griffin"s television special "Sidewalks of New England" in 1968, performing a dance from Agnes DeMille"s "Fall River Legend".
Mississippi Wilson was a Ballet Mistress for New York Theatre Ballet when she died of cancer in Manhattan, on April 27, 2008.