Diary entries
October 30 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca could have been no. 104 or no. 123. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 2 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The Waltz by Chopin could have been either op. 42, or op. 64, no. 3, or op. 69, no. 1, and the Etude-Tableau in A minor could have been either no. 2 or no. 6. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 4 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The Waltz by Chopin could have been either op. 42, or op. 64, no. 3, or op. 69, no. 1, and the Etude-Tableau in A minor could have been either no. 2 or no. 6. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 7 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina does not provide further information, but the Etude-Tableau in A minor could have been no. 2 or no. 6. The Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca could have been no. 104 or no. 123. Satina also notes that ‘the entire proceed of this concert was given by Rachmaninoff to the American and Russian War Charities’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 15 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 20 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 22 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 1 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 17 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s op. 45 in New York, and that the concert began at 8.45pm. According to the review, a transcription by the conductor of a work by Bach was also heard. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 18 1942
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was Rachmaninoff’s last appearance in New York, and that the concert began at 2.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 3 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 5 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 11 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 12 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina notes that this was Rachmaninoff’s last appearance as a concerto soloist. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 15 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that from different reviews the program is not entirely clear. It could be that Chopin’s Scherzo no. 3 in C sharp minor, op. 39, was also played, along with Liszt’s Valse oubliée. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 17 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that this concert, commencing at 8.15pm, was the last that was given by her brother-in-law. Satina also indicates that the concert in Knoxville had been planned two months earlier (along with a concert in Chatanooga), hence, one imagines, Rachmaninoff’s willingness to return to perform here. A press clipping advertising the concert, originally scheduled for November 9, is included with this entry. Poignantly but quite plainly, Satina writes ‘all the concerts which were listed after – Orlando, Houston, San Antonio, Dayton, Pasadena, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach, etc. – were cancelled.’ LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.