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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.

1964

Concert

13th June3.30pmMusic Room at Brookhill Hall, Pinxton

Performers
Brian Suter (tenor) Oliver Browett (violin) Richard Webb (cello) John Williams (piano) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)
Programme
Coke
Elegiac Trio for piano, violin and cello in C minor, Op. 32
Franck
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Coke
Six Songs for soprano or tenor, Op. 19
Coke
Six Songs for soprano or tenor, Op. 39 (Love's a Ghost)
Notes
Given at Brookhill for the Music Circle of the Nottingham Mechanics Institution, which came to Coke rather than the other way about. The printed programme gives the Elegiac Trio op. 32; César Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue played by John Williams; and the complete Six Songs op. 19 with their poets named. No further items appear on the sheet that survives, so it is not certain whether the concert had a second half. Three further report dates survive, two in June 1964 and one of 30 May 1964, which cannot be matched to a publication and are left out here.
Source
Printed programme, 13 June 1964 — Coke0012 Stanley Berrill, 13 June 1964 Derbyshire Times, 19 June 1964 Brian Suter Correspondence, 17 May 1964
Provenance
Brian Suter: correspondence (Coke0045–Coke0048); Concert Programmes collection (Coke0113–Coke0141)

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