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Iconography, 1885-1992
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Miscellaneous Photographs
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Senar (Hertenstein, Switzerland)
(continued) |
BOX-FOLDER 65/42 |
Exterior views: garden |
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11 prints in 5 folders; the first 4 folders
contain 2 prints each; the fifth folder contains 3, each 8.5 x 13.0 cm.
(with the exception of the final photograph in the fifth folder, which
measures 5.9 x 9.0 cm.) |
BOX-FOLDER 65/43 |
Exterior views: Lake Lucerne, view towards
mountain |
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5 prints in 2 folders: folder "A" contains
2 prints; folder "B" contains 3 prints (two black-and-white, one color);
the largest and smallest of these photographs (both held within Folder
"A") measure 8.1 x 13.6 cm. and 5.3 x 8.3 cm., respectively |
BOX-FOLDER 65/44 |
Exterior views: Construction of house |
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3 prints in 2 folders: Folder "A" contains
2 prints, 8.4 x 13.5 cm.; Folder "B"contains 1 print, 8.0 x 14.0
cm. |
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First two prints contain inscriptions in the
hand of SR, in Russian, that appear on the photographs' recto
sides. |
BOX-FOLDER 66/27 |
Exterior view of garden |
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16.9 x 22.9 cm., affixed to heavy paper
base ( 28.0 x 34.6 cm.) |
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Photographer: H. Friebel (Sursee,
Switzerland) |
BOX-FOLDER 65/45 |
Interior views |
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4 photographs housed in 2 folders; each 8.5
x 13.0 cm. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/46 |
Interior view of dining room |
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11.8 x 15.5 cm. |
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Photographer: Blau. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/47 |
Interior views, with piano |
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2 separate photographs: print "A," matted,
11.7 x 15.4 cm. (19.0 x 21.8 cm. with mat) ; print "B," unmated, 8.6 x
13.0 cm. |
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Print "B" verso bears an inscription by
Sophie Satin identifying the location of the photograph as "SR's
studio." |
BOX-FOLDER 65/48 |
Interior views of house: SR's piano |
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2 separate photographs: print "A," 13.0 x
8.5 cm. ; print "B," 11.7 x 7.8 cm. |
BOX 65 |
Los Angeles (Beverly Hills), California
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BOX-FOLDER 65/49 |
SR's home in Beverly Hills, front views,
1965
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2 color photographs ; each 7.9 x 11.8
cm. |
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Verso of each bears inscriptions that read
"610 Elm St. / Beverly Hills, Calif. / September 1965." |
BOX-FOLDER 65/50 |
SR's home in Beverly Hills, back view,
1942
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11.8 x 18.5 cm. |
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Verso bears inscriptions by Sophie Satin
identifying the location of the photograph as SR's home on Elm Street in
Beverly Hills; inscription also reads "The back entrance of the house in
1942 where / Rachmaninoff passed away next [i.e. the following]
spring." |
BOX-FOLDER 65/51 |
Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral of Her Icon,
"Rescuer of the Perishing," Los Angeles, California |
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2 prints: postcard image (8.7 x 13.8 cm.) ;
photograph (7.2 x 10.8 cm.) |
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Inscriptions on both photographs identify
its location as well as indicating that this church was the site of SR's
funeral in March 1943. |
BOX 65 |
Events
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BOX-FOLDER 65/52 |
Exhibit in honor of SR at the Moscow
Conservatory, 1942
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2 photographs: print "A," 16.3 x 11.5 cm. ;
print "B," 11.5 x 16.3 cm. |
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Print "A" depicts a group photograph
(including SR, M. Slonov and others, in the summer of 1893) hanging on
wall above a display case containing published musical scores of SR's
works. |
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Print "B" depicts photographs of SR and
publications in a display case. Includes pages bearing typed captions, in
English, identifying each of these two photographs, as well as
photoreproductions of these. |
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Includes a clipping by Jacob Chernukhin
titled "With the Enemy at the Gates. Moscow Holds Rachmaninoff
Exhibition," from The Musician, October,
1942 describing the event. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/53 |
Exhibit (unidentified location) dedicated
to SR, mirror belonging to NR |
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13.4 x 9.8 cm. |
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Verso bears inscriptions in Russian: one
reads "a corner of our museum" ; the other, by Sophie Satin, reads "this
mirror [belonged to] N. A. Rakhmaninova" [NR] |
BOX-FOLDER 65/54 |
"Rachmaninoff Day," Ivanovka, 6 June
1971
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2 prints portraying musicians that performed
at an outdoor park at Ivanovka for an event held in honor of
SR. |
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Photographer: IUriĭ Nikolaevich
Ishin. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/55 |
Dedication of a plaque (a bas-relief of SR
in profile) on SR's Moscow home (where he lived 1905-1917), 26
March 1966
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3 photographs, each 17.3 x 11.6
cm. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/56 |
Dedication of a plaque (a bas-relief of SR
in profile) on SR's Moscow home where he lived from 1905-1917, 26
March 1966
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22.8 x 16.9 cm. |
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Depicts officials standing under the plaque,
which bears an inscription in Russian that reads "In this house, between
1905 and 1917, the great Russian composer Sergei Vasil'evich Rachmaninoff
lived and worked." |
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Verso bears inscriptions by Sophie Satin and
Irina Wolkonsky (?) identifying the sculptors of the plaque (N. I.
Nian-Gol'dman and architect V. Uliashev) and the officials portrayed (M.
[Mikhaĭl Ivanovich] CHulaki, [Artistic] Director, Bol'shoĭ Teatr; [a
representative for] the Director of the Moscow Conservatory; the
Secretary of the Composers' Union, [Georgiĭ Vasil'evich Sviridov]; and I.
S. [Ivan Semënovich] Kozlovskiĭ) |
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Includes a printed invitation to the event,
bearing an engraved image of SR. |
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Photographer: S. Khenkin. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/57 |
Dedication of a plaque (a bas-relief of SR
in profile) on SR's Moscow home where he lived from 1905-1917, 26
March 1966
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2 identical prints, 11.5 x 17.7
cm. |
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Verso of each print bears an inscription by
Irina Wolkonsky (?) identifying the event. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/58 |
Dedication of a plaque (a bas-relief of SR
in profile) on SR's Moscow home, 26 March 1966
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2 identical prints: print "A," 11.5 x 17.7
cm. ; print "B," 11.7 x 17.2 cm. |
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Portrays the officials present at the
event. |
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Verso of each print bears an inscription by
Irina Wolkonsky (?) identifying the officials pictured therein: "The
meeting of the Secretary of the Composers' Union of the USSR, G. V.
[Georgiĭ Vasil'evich] Sviridov; (from left to right:) [Artistic] Director
of the Bol'shoĭ Teatr, the composer M. I. [Mikhaĭl Ivanovich] CHulaki;
Provost of the Moscow Conservatory, Professor A. A. Nikolaev [?]; G. V.
Sviridov; Bol'shoĭ Teatr artist I. S. [Ivan Semënovich] Kozlovskiĭ;
Moscow Conservatory harp professor K. A. Erdeli [Kseniia Aleksandrovna
Erdely]; I. F. [Irina Fëdorovna] SHaliapina; [unidentified male];
Director of the Glinka State Central Music Museum, E. N.
Alekseeva") |
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Print "B" bears an inscription by Sophie
Satin, identifying Irina Chaliapin [SHaliapina] |
BOX-FOLDER 65/59 |
Dedication of a plaque (a bas-relief of SR
in profile) on SR's Moscow home, 26 March 1966
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2 identical prints ; 11.6 x 17.3
cm. |
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Features E. N. Alekseeva (Director, Glinka
State Central Music Museum) and K. A. Erdeli [Kseniia Aleksandrovna
Erdely] (Moscow Conservatory harp professor) |
BOX-FOLDER 65/60 |
Dedication of a plaque (a bas-relief of SR
in profile) on SR's Moscow home, 26 March 1966
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Photograph: 17.3 x 12.0 cm. |
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Photograph of the exterior of the
home. |
BOX 65 |
Cemeteries
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BOX-FOLDER 65/61 |
SR's gravesite (Kensico Cemetery,
Valhalla, N.Y.) |
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4 prints of the same subject, varying in
size from 11.5 x 8.0 cm. to 13.8 x 8.5 cm. One print is matted, measuring
13.8 x 7.9 cm. (19.9 x 13.0 cm. with mat) |
BOX-FOLDER 69/15 |
Reproduction of architectural
drawing/specification plans for the headstone at SR's gravesite,
Valhalla, N.Y. |
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31.6 x 32.7 cm. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/62 |
SR's gravesite (Kensico Cemetery,
Valhalla, N.Y.) |
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24.0 x 18.9 cm. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/63 |
SR's gravesite (Kensico Cemetery,
Valhalla, N.Y.), with three unidentified women, 1948
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24.4 x 18.5 cm. |
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Verso bears an inscription by Sophie Satin
that reads "Rachmaninoff Fund. The / piano contestants at Kensico, NY /
in 1948." |
BOX-FOLDER 65/64 |
Gravesite of SR's mother, Liubov' Petrovna
Rakhmaninova (died 1929) in Novgorod, Russia |
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5 prints, each 17.2 x 11.2 cm. |
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Verso of four of these photographs bear
inscriptions, by Sophie Satin and someone else, identifying the subject;
three of the photographs bear the date "1968"; one photograph depicts a
woman tending the grave. |
BOX 65-66 |
Miscellany
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BOX-FOLDER 65/65 |
Dedication of Rachmaninoff Memorial Hall,
Oakdale, N.Y., 25 June 1950
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6 prints, each 8.1 x 5.4 cm. |
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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
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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.) |
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Depicts various views of the Hall and its
grounds. |
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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
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4 black-and-white photographs and 2
black-and-white photographic greeting cards housed in 3 separate white
paper folders |
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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. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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
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Print "A," 16.6 x 23.5 cm. ; print "B,"
12.0 x 17.8 cm. |
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The photographs depict separate perspectives
of the school. |
BOX-FOLDER 66/28 |
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Circle, Odessa,
1950-1960
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Print, 23.0 x 25.3 cm. |
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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 |
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In English. |
BOX-FOLDER 65/70 |
Photograph of marble plaque affixed to a
wall in the Moscow Conservatory |
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18.6 x 12.2 cm. |
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Bears the names of the "Graduates of the
Moscow Conservatory [who were] awarded Gold Medal" between 1875 and
1900. |
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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 |
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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 |
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The icon was once owned by Catherine the
Great, and formerly housed in the shrine at Catherine's estate at
TSarskoe Selo (Russia) |
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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. |
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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
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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
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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. |
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This material is bound within a ring-binder
notebook that Ms. Reeves donated to the Library of Congress upon completion
of her documentary. |
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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
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 |
Posters from Moscow performances,
1942-1944 |
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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]
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 |
Posters from Moscow performances,
1972-1973 |
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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]
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 |
Posters from performances in Minsk and
Kislovodsk, 1973 |
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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]
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 |
Posters from performances and events in
Tambov, 1968-1971 |
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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]
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MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 |
Posters from performances and events in
Tambov, 1973 |
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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]
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