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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.

1929

Concert

1st JuneSchool Hall (unknown)

Performers
K.F. Malcolmson (organ) F.J.L. Bury (piano) E.A.ST.C Davson (violin) R.W. McDowall (violin) A.D. Thackeray, K.S. (viola) J.M.A Ridley (cello) D.G Longman (flute) M.J Waterhouse (flute) E.G.L Temple (organ) A.H.M. Richards (bass voice) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Mr R.E. Prior (voice) H.I. Matthey (piano) E.W.S Ford (voice) Mr A.H.G. Kerry The E.C.M.S. A.G. Hazlerigg B.A.B. Burrows A.R.C. Southby L Clive
Programme
Bach
Prelude in A minor for organ
Debussy
Jardins sous la pluie
Tchaikovsky
Andante from String Quartet in D minor
Weelkes
Madrigal "Welcome sweet pleasure"
Mozart
Scherzo from Duet No.2 for two flutes
Purcell
Fairest Isle
Stevens
The Cloud-capped towers
Handel
March from Scipio for organ
Bononcini
Love leads to battle
Coke
Three Preludes (selection unknown)
Bach
Spring comes laughing
L Badia
Brindisi
Sinding
The Rustle of Spring
Thomas Ford
Since first I saw your face
Three Sea Shantys (arr. Terry)
A.D.E.W
Eton Boating Song
J Barnby
Vale
J Barnby
Carmen Etonense
Source
Eton College Chronicle, 4 June 1929
Provenance
Eton (Coke0360–Coke0380)

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