Diary entries
September 20 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Rusalka'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
September 21 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'A Life for the Tsar'. Keldysh (p. 213) provided details of this entirely new production of Glinka's opera which, controversially, sought to restore the composer's original intentions, quoting highly laudatory reviews of Rachmaninoff's conducting. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
September 22 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Eugene Onegin'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
September 23 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Rusalka'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
September 28 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Prince Igor'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
September 30 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'A Life for the Tsar'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 1 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Queen of Spades'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 4 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'A Life for the Tsar'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 5 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'A Life for the Tsar'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 12 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Rusalka'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 15 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Queen of Spades'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 21 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'A Life for the Tsar'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 25 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Oprichnik'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 26 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Queen of Spades'. 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 noted Nezhdanova as Prilepa, and Zbrueva as Polina and Milovzor. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 27 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Eugene Onegin'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 28 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Oprichnik'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 9 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Oprichnik'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 15 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Queen of Spades'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 17 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Prince Igor'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 18 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Queen of Spades'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 22 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Eugene Onegin'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 25 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Eugene Onegin'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 26 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Oprichnik'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 30 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: Satina noted only a few details about this concert, yet Martyn provided 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.
December 6 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'A Life for the Tsar'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 8 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Eugene Onegin'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 15 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Queen of Spades'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 21 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Rusalka'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 22 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'Eugene Onegin'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 27 1904 (Julian calendar)
Rachmaninoff's role: Conductor
Notes: 'The Oprichnik'. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.