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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

12th JanuaryEveningBlue Triangle Hall, Nottingham (YWCA)

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) + others
Programme
Coke
Piano Quintet, Op. 8 (withdrawn)
Coke
Rhapsody for piano, oboe and bassoon, Op. 6 (withdrawn)
Coke
Three String Pieces, Op. 5
Coke
Romanza for piano trio, Op. 2 (withdrawn)
Coke
Fantasie for piano, Op. 3 (withdrawn)
Coke
Three Small Pieces for wind quartet, Op. 7 (withdrawn)
Coke
Improvisata for violin and piano, Op. 10 (withdrawn) (Premiere)
Schumann
Arabeske ('three pieces for solo pianoforte')
Notes
The source marks the Improvisata Op. 10 as a premiere.
Source
Nottingham Guardian, 8 January 1934 Nottingham Guardian, 13 January 1934 Nottingham Evening Post, 13 January 1934
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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