75th Birthday Recital missed

"Jorge had in mind to play Godowsky's Johann Strauss Künstlerleben at his forthcoming 75th birthday tour as grande finale.  Jorge played this piece on several occasions for me telling me: this is a work in progress, no! a lot of work in progress!

He had played a lot of Godowsky for me when I was staying with him in Bloomington. We went to Butler University where he kept his scores and could use his Baldwin SD 10 (in his apartment he had a small grand which he never touched). While I turned pages he played the Passacaglia, most parts of the Java suite, Künstlerleben, Fledermaus and parts from Triakontameron. All the time I was thinking why I am turning pages? He knows the music!  Unfortunately, his 75th birthday tour never happened." [Mattheus Smits]

Jorge learned this piece and played it to Leopold Godowsky in New York City in the early 1930s, while still at Curtis.

The performance record is sparse. On Thursday, 3 August 1939 in the Anfiteatro, Havana, in a concert the initiative for which came from the municipal mayor Dr Antonio Beruff Mendieta (1901-1952), who devoted much time to cultural and educational matters, he programmed it - this being one of only two references I've found thus far (the other being 26 March 1940 at Curtis). Jorge also mentions the piece in an interview with David Dubal, when he says that David Saperton was probably quite pleased that he [Bolet] - perhaps unlike other students - could handle Godowsky's music.