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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.

1987

Broadcast

14th November9.05pmBBC Wales (BBC Radio 3), Cardiff Studios

Performers
Alexander Baillie Piers Lane
Programme
Alan Bush
Concert Piece
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 2 in C, Op. 29
Notes
The Second Cello Sonata, Op. 29, recorded by Alexander Baillie and Piers Lane in 1984 and broadcast three years later. The Radio Times billed the programme first for 20 October 1987, then again for this date, noting that it had been postponed. It was announced as the first broadcast performance, which it was not: Coke and Alan Morton had broadcast the work themselves between January 1939 and March 1940. The other work in the programme was Alan Bush's Concert Piece, Op. 17. Bush had taught Coke composition.
Source
British Music Society BBC Genome — Coke0043
Provenance
BBC Genome (Coke0043)

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