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.

1933

Concert

16th NovemberAfternoonTorquay Pavilion

Performers

Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Municipal Orchestra Ernest W. Goss (conductor)

Programme

Coke

Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 4 (withdrawn)

Coke

Fantasie for piano, Op. 3 (withdrawn) (Premiere)

Schumann

Arabesque

Dvorak

New World Symphony

Mendelssohn

Midsummer Night's Dream Overture

Weber

Invitation to the Waltz

Source

Western Morning News, 17 November 1933 Torquay Directory, 22 November 1933

Provenance

British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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