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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.

1941

Concert

13th May1.15pmManchester Albert Hall

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Iris Lunan-Tryon (contralto) George Whitaker (accompanist)
Programme
Coke
24 Preludes for piano, Op. 33/34
George Whitaker
9 Songs
Coke
15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37
Notes
A 'Tuesday Middays' concert. 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 opp. 33/34. The Daily Telegraph report, for the Manchester edition only, is undated.
Source
Programme, 14 May 1941 Manchester City News, 16 May 1941 Nottingham Journal, 16 April 1941 Daily Telegraph (Manchester only)
Provenance
Manuscript front cover, Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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