Students of Godowsky unite!

I have uncovered so many little tidbits of knowledge while trawling (mostly a pleasurable task) through newspaper archives bur some bits can be lost in this large website. Here's an interesting detail .

16 October 1985

Liverpool, England (for the second time in the city after 20 years)

Rachmaninoff 3 [+ Sibelius, Symphony No.4 in A minor]

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Marek Janowski

​The packed house gave him a tumultuous reception.  A local pianist Douglas Miller (1888-1984) had died the previous year; both he and Bolet had worked with Godowsky (for Miller, this was in Berlin).

Rex Bawden of the Daily Post

Circa 1910/1911, Miller played the new Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 3 at St George's Hall, Liverpool with organ accompaniment (he had already played it for Godowsky in Berlin); repeated at St Agnes’s Church, Ullet Road, again with organ. These may have been either rehearsals or for an invited group. A performance with the Bournemouth Municipal Orch was cancelled, the composer having withheld the band parts.

The concerto premiered on November 28, 1909, in New York with the composer as soloist and Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony Society.