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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.

1935

Concert

19th AprilGrand Theatre, Derby

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Leslie Huckaby (violin) Evelyn Scotney (soprano) Margaret Balfour (contralto) Frank Titterton (tenor) Broomfield Robertson (baritone)
Programme
Coke
Improvisata for violin and piano, Op. 10 (withdrawn)
Coke
Elegy for a Dead Musician for contralto, violin and orchestra (or piano), Op. 16 (withdrawn)
Coke
Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 12 (withdrawn)
Schubert
Hymn to the Almighty
Offenbach
Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman
Lalo
Aubade from Le Roi D'ys
Echo Song
Wagner
Farewell (Lohengrin)
Schubert
Erl King
Sound an Alarm
Kreisler
Praeludim and Allegro
Handel
Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves
Coke
Rhapsody for piano, oboe and bassoon, Op. 6 (withdrawn)
Coke
Improvisata for violin and piano, Op. 10 (withdrawn)
Notes
In aid of Derbyshire Children's Hospital, promoted by Arthur Barlow. The repertoire column lists the concert twice from two accounts; the second one names the Rhapsody Op. 6 and repeats the Improvisata as 'Improvisata for piano Op. 6', which is the Op. 10 Improvisata under a wrong opus number. Three publications carry five dates between them, so none of the citations is dated here.
Source
Derby Daily Telegraph Derbyshire Advertiser Derby Daily Telegraph
Provenance
British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586), Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296)

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