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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.

1939

Concert

13th DecemberAfternoonBath Pump Room

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) John Kirkland (violinist) Hon. Victoria Stanley
Programme
Coke
15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37
Coke
24 Preludes for piano, Op. 33/34
Waltz of my Heart
Smoke Gets in your Eyes
The Sun Whose Rays
Notes
The repertoire recorded here looks wrong, as the article speaks of 'his chamber music'. The violin items are given in the source only as an unattributed aside — "Violin stuff: Schubert Ave Maria, Capriccieuse (Elgar), Canzonetta (d'Ambrosio) and something by Fibich" — so they are not set out as programme items. The concert is also recorded in Coke's own performance lists in the front cover of the manuscript of the Variations Op. 37 and in the cover of the manuscript of the Preludes Op. 33/34.
Source
Western Daily Press, 8 December 1939 Western Daily Press, 8 December 1939
Provenance
Manuscript front cover

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