Diary entries
February 3 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The attached review refers to a work by Mussorgsky (presumably Rachmaninoff's arrangement of the Hopak), yet Satina had no record of this being on the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 5 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicated that the concert began at 8.30pm. Her annotation on the attached program image indicates that the Schubert Rondo was replaced by the Nocturne and Scherzo by Chopin, listed here. 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 noted that, based on the different materials she had been sent, the program was not entirely clear. In regard to the works by Chopin, the attached review is at odds with the attached press clipping. For now, it is presumed that rather than the Polonaise and Ballade, Rachmaninoff played the Nocturne and Scherzo. While there is no mention in the review of Liszt's Valse oubliée, it likely still was part of the final bracket of compositions. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 17 1943
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina noted that this concert, commencing at 8.15pm, was the last that was given by her brother-in-law. Satina also indicated that the concert in Knoxville had been planned two months earlier (along with a concert in Chattanooga), hence, one imagines, Rachmaninoff’s willingness to return to perform here. A press clipping that advertised the concert, originally scheduled for November 9, is included with this entry. The attached reviews offer conflicting information about which works by Rachmaninoff were performed: one notes the Etudes-Tableaux in B minor and A minor, which the fourth attached press clipping indicates were programmed, while the other notes only one with the Prelude in G major, op. 32, no. 5, being added. The first review has been followed in this instance as it seems more authoritative. Confusingly, however, this review refers to the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, being performed (perhaps as an encore), also referring to it as 'no. 4'. It also notes the transcription of Mussorgsky's Hopak as an encore, but refers to the composer as Rimsky-Korsakov in error. Poignantly but quite plainly, in her notes Satina wrote ‘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.