Word: soloistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sudden Fall. The daughter of a Viennese leather-goods manufacturer, Margherita Wallmann danced as soon as she could stand. At 15 she was a soloist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. But her career as a dancer came to an abrupt end in 1934. During a rehearsal at the Vienna State Opera House, a trap door opened suddenly, and Margherita plunged, she says, "like Eurydice into the underworld." She fell 14 feet onto an iron framework, breaking...
BLACK PEARLS (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane is the featured soloist, and he zooms boldly off to do some fine, abstract skywriting at Mach 1. Meanwhile, back at the piano, Red Garland waits to deliver earthbound but agreeable interludes of up-tempo swing...
...bouncing around like a rubber ball. I'm immature, plenty," he admits cheerfully, "but I don't feel I'm mixed up." Holdaway, 18, is a track star at Seattle's Ingraham High School, a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist, and last summer was a tenor soloist in the first U.S. high school choir to tour Japan. He is torn between a career in political science or music, but in either case his goal is personal happiness. 'That is the issue when you evaluate your life...
...fixing to enlist in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall when Balanchine drafted her. A tall (5 ft. 71 in.), long-stemmed native of Miami, she is known as "The Technician," and has excelled in an extremely wide range of roles in her year as soloist. Her precise, whippet-quick movements are best showcased in Four Temperaments. She spends all her off hours baking brownies and cakes ("Oh, they're sooo tempting, but I can't touch them") for the theater's canteen, which is run by her mother, a former vaudeville hoofer...
...GLORIA GOVRIN, 21, has been in tutus since she could walk. As a Newark schoolgirl, she haunted the backstage of the New York City Ballet collecting autographs. Now she is a veteran soloist, a fine comedienne in Stars and Stripes and Western Symphony. Her role as Queen of the Amazons in Midsummer Night's Dream was type casting; she is the tallest (5 ft. 7½ in.) girl in the troupe. Thick-legged and saucer-eyed, she is a steady, remarkably effortless performer whose spectacular leaps put some of the male dancers to shame. "Gloria is beautiful and strong...