Diary entries
January 18 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Chamber Musician
Notes: Satina notes that this was the first appearance of Rachmaninoff in one of Kerzin’s concerts. Satina cites Apetian, p. 230, as her reference. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
September 3 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Keldysh (p. 210) notes that while Rachmaninoff was scheduled to have conducted the season-opening performance of Glinka's 'A Life for the Tsar', delays in that production meant that this appearance was Rachmaninoff's first at the Bolshoi Theatre.
September 17 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Keldysh (p. 213) notes Chaliapin in the role of Galitsky in this performance.
September 21 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Keldysh (p. 213) provides details of this entirely new production of Glinka's opera, which sought to restore the composer's original work, and quotes numerous and highly laudatory reviews of Rachmaninoff's conducting.
October 26 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: This was a special celebratory 100th performance of the opera at the Bolshoi Theatre, with Chaliapin’s first performance as Tomsky. Keldysh (p. 216) also notes Nezhdanova as Prilepa, and Zbrueva as Polina and Milovzor. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 30 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina notes only a few details about this concert, yet Martyn provides more precise information about the works in which Siloti appeared as soloist (p. 538). LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.