Concerts

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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.

1943

Concert

14th November6pmGrand Theatre, Derby

Performers

Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) North Midlands Orchestra Walter Disney (conductor)

Programme

Borodin

Prince Igor

Dvorak

New World Symphony

Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No.2

Rachmaninoff

Two short piano pieces (unknown)

Weber

Oberon Overture

Holst

St Paul's Suite for strings

Notes

The Derby Daily Telegraph of 27 September 1943 mentions the Weber and Holst pieces; the paper also carried reports on 15 and 19 November 1943.

Source

Derby Daily Telegraph, 10 November 1943

Provenance

British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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