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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.

1940

Concert

17th NovemberAfternoonBrookhill Hall

Performers
Bridget Tallents (contralto) A Fletcher (violin) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)
Programme
Coke
15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37
Coke
24 Preludes for piano, Op. 33/34
Coke
Ballade for piano in C, Op. 27
Coke
Six Songs for contralto or bass, Op. 42
Coke
Elegy for a Dead Musician for contralto, violin and orchestra (or piano), Op. 16 (withdrawn)
Notes
Also documented by Coke's performance lists in the front cover of the manuscript of the Variations Op. 37 and in the cover of the manuscript of the Preludes Op. 33/34.
Source
Notts Free Press, 22 November 1940 Nottingham Guardian, 18 November 1940
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), Manuscript front cover

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