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.

1935

Concert

1st May3pm and 8pmPump Room, Bath (Bath Festival of Contemporary Art)

Performers

Pump Room Orchestra Bridget Tallents (contralto) Dettmar Dressel (violin) Edward Dunn (conductor)

Programme

Coke

Elegy for a Dead Musician for contralto, violin and orchestra (or piano), Op. 16 (withdrawn)

Coke

Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 13 (withdrawn)

Source

Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, 27 April 1935 Western Daily Press, 26 April 1935 Derbyshire Advertiser

Provenance

British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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