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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.

1990

Concert

15th September7.30pmMansfield Community Arts Centre, Leeming Street, Mansfield

Performers
Linda Darnell (soprano) David Barclay (tenor) Jason Hibbert (baritone) Clare Bartholomew (saxophone & clarinet) Stuart Bradshaw (piano)
Programme
Coke
Six Songs for soprano or tenor, Op. 19 (Two songs: When the lamp is shattered; I wandered lonely)
Notes
'Music Mixture', a mixed programme running from Bach and Handel through Schubert, Gounod and Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan, Phil Woods, Lennon and McCartney, Gershwin and Charles Ives. Linda Darnell closed the evening with two of Coke's Six Songs, op. 19: 'When the lamp is shattered' and 'I wandered lonely'. This is the only performance of Coke's music recorded anywhere between the BBC Wales broadcast of 14 November 1987 and the English Music Festival of 2 June 2012. The programme comes from the singer's own papers.
Source
Printed programme, 'Music Mixture', 15 September 1990 — Coke0023
Provenance
Linda Darnell

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