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This is every performance of Coke's music that has so far been traced, from his schooldays at Eton in 1929 to the present, assembled from printed programmes, press notices, Radio Times billings, his mother's household accounts and the composer's own annotations. It is not a complete record and it cannot be: he was played most often in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, sometimes in a converted stable at his own house, and much of that went unreported. There is a gap of twenty-five years between 1987 and 2012 in which exactly one performance has been found. If you know of a concert that is missing, or have a programme, a cutting or a memory of hearing this music, please do get in touch.

1936

Concert

10th December8.30pmAeolian Hall, London

Performers
Charles Lynch (piano) Barbara Welby (soprano) Alan Morton (cello)
Programme
Coke
Ballade for piano in C, Op. 27 (Premiere)
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 24 (London Premiere)
Coke
Polichinelle and Inventions (in two parts) for piano (Polichinelle)
Coke
Polichinelle and Inventions (in two parts) for piano (Two Inventions)
Coke
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G, Op. 26
Notes
A second-hand report follows the programme in the source: "Symphony No.2 was 'apparently' played accord. WDP 19.6.36" — that is, the Western Daily Press of 19 June 1936 reported the Second Symphony as also having been played.
Source
Nottingham Journal, 20 June 1936 Derby Daily Telegraph, 19 June 1936 Derby Daily Telegraph, 12 December 1936 Coke Ballade Op. 27 score Coke Cello Sonata No. 1 score Coke Polichinelle score Coke Two Inventions score Derby Daily Telegraph, 16 January 1940 Western Daily Press, 19 June 1936 Western Daily Press, 19 June 1936
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586), Chesterfield Library

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