Diary entries
February 14 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The attached press clipping indicates the Mozart and Chopin group were a change from the advertised Chopin Sonata in B minor. The waltz could have been that in G flat major, op. 70, no. 1, misnamed as G major in the first attached review. The Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, is noted as one of the encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89. Review: Philadelphia Inquirer 1921.02.15 p. 3.
February 15 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 17 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 24 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 26 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina noted that the two Etudes-Tableaux included no. 3 in F sharp minor, and one ‘in modo Antico’ (likely B minor), which would appear to align with the program given in Boston on March 6. The attendance of Paderewski at the concert is noted in two of the attached reviews. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
February 28 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: While the attached review is too depleted to be deciphered, the edited photo of it, which is included, at least appears to match the names of the composers with the works that were played. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 6 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina noted that the two Etudes-Tableaux included no. 3 in F sharp minor, and one ‘in modo Antico’ (B minor), which the attached press clipping appears to confirm. The reviews indicate that Mussorgsky's Hopak was repeated, while Olin Downes in the Boston Post refers to a 'half hour' of encores at the end. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 8 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The attached review indicates that Mendelssohn's Spinning Song, the same composer's Song Without Words no. 47, 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.
March 10 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The attached review indicates that the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, was given as an encore after the Chopin group, and that further encores were given at the end. It is not entirely clear if the reference to the Prelude in G major, op. 32, no. 5, was among these, or if it was a typographical error when referring to the more famous one. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 13 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 15 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
March 19 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina believed that the first Waltz by Chopin was in E flat major, op. 18. The review mentions a 'Novelle' by Medtner and the transcription of Mussorgsky's Hopak, yet it is not entirely clear if they were played as encores. The attached press clipping does not include all works on the program. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89. Review: 1921.03.20 p. 14.
March 31 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The attached reviews indicate that Chopin's Waltz in E flat major, op. 18, was played as an encore after the Schumann Papillons, while the Polka de W.R. and a Song Without Words by Mendelssohn were given at the end of the recital. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 1 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: The exact order of the program was not clear to Satina, nor the specific details of Mozart's Symphony in G minor. However, the reviews appear to support the program order, and Mozart's symphony appears to have been no. 40, K. 550. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
April 2 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording
Notes: While Martyn lists the venue of this recording as New York (p. 493), given the concert the previous evening and then the same evening in Philadelphia one wonders if the location was in fact Camden, NJ.
April 2 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 10 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicated that the Chopin Waltz could be either op. 70, no. 3 or op. 64, no. 1, although the latter was more frequently played at this time, and that this was the first concert in which Rachmaninoff included his transcription of Kreisler's Liebesleid. Satina also referred to a review she had been sent to indicate that Rachmaninoff played his Prelude in C sharp minor, which judging from the attached press clipping may not have been as an encore. The review Satina refers to has not been located. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 11 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 13 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 14 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 16 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 17 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 20 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina noted that the Chopin Waltz could be either op. 70, no. 3 or op. 64, no. 1, although the latter was more widely played at the time, and that the two Rachmaninoff etudes could be nos. 1 or 7, or nos. 2 or 6. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 22 1921
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: The attached reviews indicate that Mozart's Turkish Rondo was given as an encore after the Grieg Ballade, that Chopin's Minute Waltz was repeated, and the Waltz in G flat major, op. 70, no. 1, was played after the Scherzo, and that the Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3, no. 2, was given at the end. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.