Diary entries

December 10 1939

Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor

Notes: Satina notes that this was the third of three consecutive Sunday evenings devoted to Rachmaninoff’s compositions, promoted as a ‘Rachmaninoff Cycle’. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

December 11 1939

Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording

January 5 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 7 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 10 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: Satina indicates that this concert began at 8.45pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 12 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: Satina indicates that this concert commenced at 2.30pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 14 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: While the key of the Schubert Impromptu was consistently listed as A flat minor, Martyn (p. 434) confirms it was D. 899, no. 4. The attached review indicates a Chopin mazurka, the Wagner-Brassin Magic Fire Music, Liszt's Liebestraum no. 3, and the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, were given as encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 15 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: While the key of the Schubert Impromptu was consistently listed as A flat minor, Martyn (p. 434) confirms it was D. 899, no. 4. It is likely that Medtner’s Fairy Tale was op. 34, no. 2. A Chopin Mazurka in A minor, the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, and the transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee are noted as encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 19 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 20 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 23 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Apetian included this recital, however it did not appear on Satina's list (possibly through inadvertent error, as she had a partial copy of the program). The first half of the program is according to the attached review. In other cities that featured this program (such as February 9 in Hastings, NE), the Schubert-Liszt transcription of 'The Trout' was also given, although it is not mentioned in the review. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted as an encore. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 25 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

January 26 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

February 3 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: While the key of the Schubert Impromptu was consistently listed as A flat minor, Martyn (p. 434) confirms it was D. 899, no. 4. It is likely that Medtner’s Fairy Tale was op. 34, no. 2. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

February 6 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: While the key of the Schubert Impromptu was consistently listed as A flat minor, Martyn (p. 434) confirms it was D. 899, no. 4. It is likely that Medtner’s Fairy Tale was op. 34, no. 2. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, and the transcription of Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee are noted as encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

February 9 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: While the key of the Schubert Impromptu was consistently listed as A flat minor, Martyn (p. 434) confirms it was D. 899, no. 4. It is likely that Medtner’s Fairy Tale was op. 34, no. 2. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted as one of three encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

February 12 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: While the key of the Schubert Impromptu was consistently listed as A flat minor, Martyn (p. 434) confirms it was D. 899, no. 4. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

February 13 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: While the key of the Schubert Impromptu was consistently listed as A flat minor, Martyn (p. 434) confirms it was D. 899, no. 4. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

February 14 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: While the key of the Schubert Impromptu was consistently listed as A flat minor, Martyn (p. 434) confirms it was D. 899, no. 4. It is likely that Medtner’s Fairy Tale was op. 34, no. 2. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

February 24 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording

March 18 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording

Notes: Recorded at Studio 2.

April 9 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording

Notes: Recorded at Studio 2.

October 14 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina notes that the Humoresque and Moment musical were performed in their revised versions. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 18 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina notes that the Humoresque and Moment musical were performed in their revised versions. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is mentioned as one of a number of encores in the attached review. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 22 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: Satina notes that this concert commenced at 2.15pm. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

October 30 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina notes that the Humoresque and Moment musical were performed in their revised versions. Satina also indicates that Rachmaninoff may have also played the Etude-Tableau in C major, op. 33. The attached review notes a work by Rimsky-Korsakov, which could have been a performance of the transcription of The Bumble Bee as an encore. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is also mentioned, again presumably given as an encore. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 5 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 6 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist

Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 7 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina notes that the Humoresque and Moment musical were performed in their revised versions. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.

November 9 1940

Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist

Notes: Satina notes that the Humoresque and Moment musical were performed in their revised versions. Olin Downes, in his review for the New York Times, notes Wagner-Brassin's Fire Music, and Rachmaninoff's transcription of 'Daisies', Schubert's 'Wohin' (likely not the arrangement by Liszt, as Downes presumed), and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee as encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.