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Iconography, 1885-1992 (continued)
Miscellaneous Photographs (continued)
BOX 65-66 Miscellany
BOX-FOLDER 65/65 Dedication of Rachmaninoff Memorial Hall, Oakdale, N.Y., 25 June 1950
6 prints, each 8.1 x 5.4 cm.
They depict the entrance to the Hall; the Hall's general and side views; its outdoor stage; and wall plaque.
BOX-FOLDER 65/66 Dedication of Rachmaninoff Memorial Hall, Oakdale, N.Y., 25 June 1950
9 prints: 6 smaller prints (8.1 x 5.4 cm.) and 3 larger prints of different sizes (between 7.5 x 7.5 cm. and 12.0 x 7.0 cm.)
Depicts various views of the Hall and its grounds.
Laid in: a letter regarding this event in the hand of Irina Wolkonsky to an unidentified recipient; the letter is undated and unsigned (and perhaps incomplete)
BOX-FOLDER 65/67 Dedication of Rachmaninoff Memorial Hall, Oakdale, N.Y., 25 June 1950
4 black-and-white photographs and 2 black-and-white photographic greeting cards housed in 3 separate white paper folders
Folder 1: print "A," 7.0 x 12.0 cm., depicts an aerial view of the Rachmaninoff Memorial Hall ; print "B," 10.3 x 7.0 cm., depicts Claude Gonvierre, the sponsor of this event, shaking hands with Ivor Gothie.
Folder 2: print "C," 7.0 x 10.3 cm., depicts Ivor Gothie at the piano; print "D," 7.1 x 10.1 cm., depicts Jane Pagels at the piano.
Folder 3: Items "E" and "F" consist of 2 copies of Claude Gonvierre's printed Christmas/New Year greeting cards, 12.5 x 17.7 cm.; the image on the front of these cards is a reproduction of the photograph of the Rachmaninoff Memorial Hall depicted in Print "A." To this image has been added printed text reading "In Memoriam / To the Master / Sergei Rachmaninoff / This hall is dedicated in / grateful appreciation / 25 June 1950 / Claude Gonvierre."
Laid in: a copy of the original arrangement of prints "A," "B," "C" and "D," which were affixed to the same sheet of paper; copy of 2 newspaper clippings describing the dedication of the Rachmaninoff Memorial Hall as published in The Advance, 29 June 1950, and in the Suffolk County News, 30 June 1950.
BOX-FOLDER 65/68 Tambov Music School, named in honor of SR (=Tambovskoe Muzykal'noe Uchilishche imeni Sergeia Rakhmaninova), in Tambov, USSR (now Russia), undated
Print "A," 16.6 x 23.5 cm. ; print "B," 12.0 x 17.8 cm.
The photographs depict separate perspectives of the school.
BOX-FOLDER 66/28 Rachmaninoff Symphonic Circle, Odessa, 1950-1960
Print, 23.0 x 25.3 cm.
Portrays the members of a group of SR enthusiasts.
BOX-FOLDER 65/69 List of portraits, drawings, and sculptures of SR, typescript prepared by Sophie Satin
In English.
BOX-FOLDER 65/70 Photograph of marble plaque affixed to a wall in the Moscow Conservatory
18.6 x 12.2 cm.
Bears the names of the "Graduates of the Moscow Conservatory [who were] awarded Gold Medal" between 1875 and 1900.
SR's name is listed as having been one of the four recipients (along with Iosif Levin [Josef Lhévinne], Leonid Maksimov and Aleksandr Skriabin [Scriabin]) of the award in the twenty-third contest, 1892.
BOX-FOLDER 65/71 Photograph of SR's desk and chair, which was presented to the Library of Congress by SR's daughters, Irina Wolkonsky and Tatiana Conus
19.5 x 23.9 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 65/72 Photoreproduction of a descriptive certificate, in English, for a Russian icon portraying The Holy Virgin of Kazan with Child, dating from the eighteenth century
The icon was once owned by Catherine the Great, and formerly housed in the shrine at Catherine's estate at TSarskoe Selo (Russia)
This certificate, dated Christmas 1940, is on letterhead of The Schaeffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures (Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y.), and was apparently written by Mary Howard Gilmour.
Included is a photoreproduction of a note signed by Mary Howard Gilmour that reads "This icon is given in affectionate memory of Natalie and Sergei Rachmaninoff."
BOX 68 Photographic Slides
BOX 68 Photographic color slides, black-and-white contact sheets and original film reel used by producer Nancy Reeves (KTEH, San Jose, Calif.) in creating her 1992 television documentary Rediscovering Rachmaninoff
Photographs include those of holograph manuscript and published musical scores of SR; reproductions of original and published photographs of SR and members of his family; concert programs and newspaper articles relating to SR; miscellaneous documentation from the Library of Congress's Rachmaninoff Archive; reproductions of historical photographs of Moscow and St. Petersburg; and original photographs of the performers featured in the documentary (Dr. Anthony Antolini and the Cabrillo College Chorus). Material is organized into sections: Sections I-IV contain documentation of photographic sources; Section V contains 2 black-and-white photographic contact sheets (containing 35 images) and original film reel containing 35 black-and-white images; Section VI contains 250 photographic color slides.
This material is bound within a ring-binder notebook that Ms. Reeves donated to the Library of Congress upon completion of her documentary.
The main subject of the documentary is the performance of SR's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (op. 31, composed 1910), which had been reconstructed by Dr. Antolini from material held in the Library's Rachmaninoff Archive, by the Cabrillo College Chorus – the first performance by an American chorus after the dissolution of Soviet Russia.
MAPCASE 5 Concert and Event Posters
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Posters from Moscow performances, 1942-1944
Contents:
  • Works of SR performed by Lev Oborin, David Oĭstrakh [Oistrakh], Sviatoslav Knushevitskiĭ, A. P. Vyspreva, Grigoriĭ Ginzburg and M. I. Sakharov, at the Tchaikovsky Concer Hall, Moscow, 28 March 1942 [Item housed in Folder 5]
  • Works of SR performed by Nina Emil'ianova, N. P. Rozhdestvenskaia, L. P. El'chaninova, D. D. Golovin, H. G. Val'ter, M. I. Sakharov and S. Knushevitskiĭ, at the Moscow Conservatory's Small Hall, Moscow, 9 August 1942 [Item housed in Folder 5]
  • Works of SR performed by the piano duo Adol'f and Mikhaĭl Gotlib [Gottlieb], at the Palace of Unions' October Hall, Moscow, 19 February 1944 [Item housed in Folder 5]
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Posters from Moscow performances, 1972-1973
Contents:
  • Complete solo piano works of SR, performed by pianist Viktor Eres'ko during four separate concerts (19 November 1972, 28 January 1973, 1 April 1973, 20 May 1973), held at theHall of the House of Scientists, "in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of SR's birth" [Item housed in Folder 6]
  • "Torzhestvennyĭ vecher" (=Gala evening) "in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of SR's birth," held on 2 April 1973 at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory,featuring performances by vocal soloist Elena Obraztsova (in three songs of SR: "V molchan'i"; "Siren'," "Kakoe schast'e") and the USSR Symphony Orchestra (in a performance of the Symphonic Dances, op. 45) conducted by Evgeniĭ Svetlanov, and featuring introductory remarks by Grigoriĭ V. Sviridov and I. I. Martynov) [Item housed in Folder 6]
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Posters from performances in Minsk and Kislovodsk, 1973
Contents:
  • Performance at the Belarus Lunacharovsky State Conservatory, Minsk, on 23 March 1973, "in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of SR's birth" and featuring various performers [Item housed in Folder 7]
  • Performances held on 16 and 30 March 1973 at the Belarus Lunacharovsky State Conservatory, Minsk, "in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of SR's birth" and featuring various performers in concerts of SR's songs [Item housed in Folder 7]
  • Performances held on 19 and 24 April 1973 at the Belarus Lunacharovsky State Conservatory, Minsk, "in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of SR's birth" the performance of 19 April featured pianist IUriĭ Korsak and cellist Liudmila Zimovina in works of SR; the performance of 24 April featured performances of various works (none by SR) by performers V. S. Krasnoiartseva, domra, and L. R. Akopdzhaniana, clarinet [Item housed in Folder 7]
  • Poster publicizing an undated "Literary- musical concert" by the Kislovodsk State Philharmonic and various additional performers "in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of SR's birth" and featuring introductory remarks by Kira Vishnaiakova [Item housed in Folder 7]
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Posters from performances and events in Tambov, 1968-1971
Contents:
  • Poster publicizing "Musical evenings / The Artistic heritage of our great countryman, S. V. Rachmaninoff," consisting of fourteen performances held between 26 October 1968 and 17 May 1969 at the Hall of the Institute of Culture, Tambov; inscribed to Sophie Satin from Nikolaĭ Nikiforov, 30 September 1968 [Item housed in Folder 8]
  • Poster publicizing events associated with "Rachmaninoff Day," 31 May 1970; inscribed to Sophie Satin fron Nikolaĭ Nikiforov, Tambov, 24 May 1970 [Item housed in Folder 8]
  • Poster publicizing events associated with "Rachmaninoff Day," 6 June 1971 [Item housed in Folder 8]
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Posters from performances and events in Tambov, 1973
Contents:
  • Poster publicizing events associated with the"one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great Russian composer, pianist and conductor, S. V. Rachmaninoff," between 6 September 1972 and 27 April 1973 [Item housed in Folder 9]
  • SR / Jubilee Concert Recordings dedicated to the one-hundredth anniversary of [his] birth, held between 26 March and 1 April 1973, sponsored by the Choral Society of the Tambov Region and the Regional Scientific Pushkin Library; inscribed to Sophie Satin by Nikolaĭ Nikiforov [Item housed in Folder 9]
BOX 70-81 Books and Publications, 1886-1973
Includes primarily published books, journals, monographs and magazines held within the personal libraries of SR, Sophie Satin, and/or their family members. The contents of Boxes 70 through 76 represent publications that are either annotated or not otherwise held within LC's collections. The contents of Boxes 77 through 81 represent material that is either unannotated or duplicated within the LC's collections.
Arrangement is alphabetical by author or title.
BOX-FOLDER 74/1 Academy of Music (Philadelphia). Concert program, 18 May 1891
For a concert featuring Pëtr Il'ich Tchaikovsky conducting the Boston Festival Orchestra in a performance of his Concerto for piano and orchestra, op. 23, with Adele aus der Ohe as piano soloist, as well as his Suite for string orchestra [sic: Serenade, op. 48?] for string orchestra.
Extremely fragile condition.
BOX 70 Alekseev, A. D. [Aleksandr Dmitrievich].
S. V. Rakhmaninov. ZHizn' i tvorcheskaia deiatel'nost' (=S. V. Rachmaninoff. Life and creative activities). Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1954.
BOX 77 Alekseev, A. D. [Aleksandr Dmitrievich].
S. V. Rakhmaninov. ZHizn' i tvorcheskaia deiatel'nost' (=S. V. Rachmaninoff. Life and creative activities). Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1954.
BOX 77 Alekseeva, E. N., Pribegina, G. A., and Tumanina, N. V., editors.
Vospominaniia oMoskovskoĭ konservatorii (=Reminiscences about the Moscow Conservatory). Moskva: Izdatel'stvo "Muzyka," 1966.
BOX-FOLDER 74/2 Al'shvang, A. [Arnol'd].
"Kolokola" S. Rakhmaninova (="The Bells" by S. Rachmaninoff).
Published in two formats with identical text: as a one-page, single folio, and as a small program book by the Moscow State Philharmonic for the 1940-41 season.
BOX 77 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Biographical Dictionary. Third edition. New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 1966.
BOX 70 American Record Guide, 33, no. 2 (October 1966)
Includes annotations by Sophie Satin.
BOX 72 Apetian, Z.
"Ostorozhno: poshlost'!" (=Caution: Vulgarity!) Sovetskaia Muzyka, No. 5 (May 1964)
BOX 70, 77 Apetian, Zarui Apetovna, editor.
Vospominaniia o Rakhmaninove. Tom 1-2 (=Reminiscences about Rachmaninoff. Volume 1-2), first edition. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1957.
Three copies.
BOX 70, 77 Apetian, Z., editor.
Vospominaniia o Rakhmaninove. Tom 1-2 (=Reminiscences about Rachmaninoff. Volume 1-2), second edition. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1961.
Three copies of Volume 2.
BOX 70 Asaf'ev, B. V.
Akademik B. V. Asaf'ev. Izbrannye trudy. Tom II (=Selected works. Volume 2). Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1954.
BOX 79 Asaf'ev, B. [Boris].
"O russkoĭ prirode i russkoĭ muzyke" (=On the nature of Russians and Russian music), Sovetskaia Muzyka, No. 5 (July 1948)
BOX 70 Auer, Leopold.
My long life in music. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925.
BOX 77 Av'erino, N. K.
Muzykal'nye razgovory. Raskol dirizher i orkestr (=Musical conversations. The division of conductor and orchestra). New York: Greenwich Printing, 1947.
BOX 70 Bazhanov, N. [Nikolai] .
Rakhmaninov. (ZHizn' zamechatel'nykh liudeĭ. Seriia biografii. Vypusk 19) (=Rachmaninoff. (Life of remarkable people), volume 19) Moskva: Izdatel'stvo TSK VLKSM [ЦК ВЛКСМ], MolodaiaGvardiia, 1966.
This volume contains corrections by Sophie Satin.
BOX 70 Bazhanov, N. [Nikolai] .
Rakhmaninov. (ZHizn' zamechatel'nykh liudeĭ. Seriia biografii. Vypusk 23) (=Rachmaninoff. (Life of remarkable people), volume 23)Moskva: Izdatel'stvo TSK VLKSM [ЦК ВЛКСМ], Molodaia Gvardiia, 1966.
BOX-FOLDER 75/10 Belousov, V.
"Restavratsiia doma S. V. Rakhmaninova v Ivanovke" (=Restoration of Rachmaninoff's house at Ivanovka). Muzykal'naia zhizn', No. 14 (June 1971)
BOX 70, 77 Belza, I. F. [Igor'], editor.
Rakhmaninov i russkaia opera. Sbornik stateĭ (=S. V. Rachmaninoff and Russian opera. A Collection of articles). Moskva: Vserossiĭskoe Teatral'noe Obshchestvo, 1947.
Three copies.
BOX 70 Belza, I. F. [Igor'].
S. V. Rakhmaninov. Populiarnyĭ ocherk (=S. V. Rachmaninoff. Popular study). Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1946.
Two copies.
BOX 77 Berlioz, Hector.
Memoirs of Hector Berlioz. Translated from the French by Rachel (Scott Russell) Holmes and Eleanor Holmes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.
Annotated and edited by Ernest Newman.
BOX 80 Bertensson, Sergei.
"Rachmaninoff as I Knew Him." Etude, Vol. LXVI, no. 3 (March 1948)
BOX 70 Bertensson, Sergei, Leyda, Jay, and Satin, Sophia.
Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music. New York: New York University Press, 1956.
Two copies.
Both copies contain annotations by Satin.
BOX-FOLDER 76/10 Boelza, Igor [Igor' Belza].
"Sergei Rachmaninov." Soviet Literature, (January 1946)
BOX 70 Bogdanov-Berezovskiĭ, V., editor.
Molodye gody Sergeia Vasil'evicha Rakhmaninova. Pis'ma. Vospominaniia (=Sergei Vasil'evich Rachmaninoff's Youthful Years. Letters. Reminiscences). Leningrad/ Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1949
Two copies.
Both copies contain emendations by Sophie Satin.
BOX 77 Bowen, Catherine Drinker.
Free artist; The Story of Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein. New York: Random House, 1939.
BOX 70 Briantseva, V. N. [Vera Nikolaevna].
Detstvo i iunost' Sergeia Rakhmaninova (=The childhood and youth of Sergei Rachmaninoff). Moskva: Vsesoiuznoe Izdatel'stvo "Sovetskiĭ Kompozitor," 1970.
BOX-FOLDER 74/14 Bukinik, Michael.
"Reminiscences of Young Rachmaninoff," Local 802. Official journal of the Associated Musicians of Greater New York [American Federation of Musicians], Vol. XVII, no. 7 (May 1943)
BOX-FOLDER 74/3 Bulletin, April 1928. London: Ibbs & Tillett, 1928.
BOX 70 Bunin, Iv. [Ivan].
Izbrannye stikhi (=Selected poems). Parizh [Paris]: Izdatel'stvo "Sovremennyia Zapiski," 1929.
BOX 70, 77 Charton, J.-M. [Jean-Marie].
Les Années françaises de Serge Rachmaninoff (=The French years of Sergei Rachmaninoff). Paris: Éditions de la Revue Moderne, 1969.
Two copies.
BOX 81 Chasins, Abram.
"The Rachmaninoff Legacy – I." Saturday Review, 29 October 1955.
BOX 81 Chasins, Abram.
"The Rachmaninoff Legacy – II." Saturday Review, 26 November 1955.
BOX-FOLDER 74/4 Chekhov, A. P. [Anton Pavlovich].
Dama s sobachkoĭ (=The Lady with the dog). Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo KHudozhestvennoĭ Literatury, 1948.
BOX 77 Chertkov, V. G. [Vladimir Grigor'evich].
Ukhod Tolstogo (=Tolstoy's departure [Last days of Tolstoy]). Berlin: Izdatel'stvo I. P. Ladyzhnikova, 1922.
BOX 70 Cheshikhin, Vsevolod.
Istoriia russkoĭ opery (s 1674 po 1903 g.). Tom 1-ĭ (=History of Russian opera, from 1674 to 1903. Volume 1). Moskva: P. IUrgenson, 1905.
Laid in: Prokin, N. G. Kratkoe rukovodstvo k izucheniiu istorii muzyki (=Brief guide to the study of music history). Moskva: A. Gun, 1916.
BOX 70 Commarano, S.
Il Trovatore. A Grand opera in four acts. New York: Fred. Kullman, undated
Contains musical examples in score (melody with lyrics only) for the work's principal arias.
Libretto to Verdi's opera produced in conjunction with a production at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
BOX 77 Cooke, Charles.
Playing the piano for pleasure. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
Bears an inscription to Rachmaninoff from Cooke.
BOX 70 Cooke, James Francis.
Great pianists on piano playing. Philadelphia: Theo. Presser Co., 1917.
Contains article by SR, titled "Essentials of Artistic Playing."
BOX 71, 77 Culshaw, John.
Sergei Rachmaninov. London: Dennis Dobson, 1949.
Two copies.
BOX 77 Davies, Joseph E.
Mission to Moscow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941.
BOX-FOLDER 74/5 Den' russkago rebënka. Vypusk XI-yĭ (=Day of the Russian child. Eleventh issue. (April 1944). N. V. Borzov, editor. San Francisco, 1944.
BOX 71, 77 Dobuzhinskiĭ, M. V. [Mstislav Valerianovich], editor.
Pamiati Rakhmaninova (=Memories of Rachmaninoff). New York: S. A. Satina, 1946.
Three copies.
BOX 71 Emel'ianova, N. N..
S. V. Rakhmaninov v Ivanovke (=S. V. Rachmaninoff at Ivanovka). Voronezh: Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1971.
Two copies.
BOX-FOLDER 74/6 Etude. Vol. XXXVII, no. 10 (October 1919)
The cover page of this magazine designates it as the "Rachmaninoff Number."
BOX-FOLDER 74/7 Etude. Vol. LIX, no. 12 (December 1941)
Contains an article by SR titled "Music Should Speak from the Heart."
BOX 77 Fedin, Konst [Konstantin].
Pokhishchenie Evropy. Roman. Pervaia kniga (=The Abduction of Europe. Novel. First book). Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Pisatelei, 1934.
BOX 71 Galsworthy, John.
Memories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919.
BOX 71 Garin, F., editor.
Izgnanie Napoleona iz Moskva. Sbornik (=Exile of Napoleon from Moscow. Collection of articles). [Moskva:] Moskovskiĭ Rabochiĭ, 1938.
BOX 71 Gately, Francis Cabrini.
Musical mileage. Paterson, NJ: St. Anthony Guild Press, 1940.
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