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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.

1934

Concert

11th FebruaryAfternoonBrookhill Hall

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Miss Dowson (voice) Mr Geo. Knowles (voice)
Programme
Coke
Works for piano and voice
Schumann
Scenes of Childhood
Schubert
Variations on a theme from Rosamunde
Mendelssohn
Fugue
Notes
In aid of St Helen's Church, Pinxton. Only one date survives for the two publications, so the Nottingham Journal and Express report is left undated rather than paired by guesswork.
Source
The Nottingham Guardian, 12 February 1934 Nottingham Journal and Express
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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