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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.

1936

Concert

14th JanuaryBrookhill Hall

Performers
Barbara Welby (soprano) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)
Programme
Rachmaninoff
Eight Songs
Coke
Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 12 (withdrawn)
Coke
Two groups of Six Songs
Coke
Three Piano Pieces
Coke
Polichinelle and Inventions (in two parts) for piano (Two Inventions in Two Parts)
Coke
Variations and Fugue for piano in D minor, Op. 21 (Premiere)
Notes
The reports also mention an Infirmary concert in the previous season.
Source
Derby Daily Telegraph, 15 January 1936 Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald, 17 January 1936 Derby Daily Telegraph, 20 March 1936
Provenance
British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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