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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

20th OctoberAfternoonBrookhill Hall

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) G Inglefield (flute) A Winfield (oboe) G Parker (clarinet) L Winfield (bassoon) Mr W. Wigley (violin) Mrs Wigley (violin) C Brooks (viola) C Wilson (cello)
Programme
Coke
Piano Quintet, Op. 8 (withdrawn) (Premiere)
Coke
Romanza for piano trio, Op. 2 (withdrawn)
Coke
Fantasie for piano, Op. 3 (withdrawn)
Coke
Arabesque, Pastorale and Plainte
Coke
Three Small Pieces for wind quartet, Op. 7 (withdrawn) (Premiere)
Coke
Three String Pieces, Op. 5 (Premiere)
Coke
Rhapsody for piano, oboe and bassoon, Op. 6 (withdrawn) (Premiere)
Notes
Coke's 21st birthday (coming of age) celebration. The repertoire is recorded from two reports: the first says he played 'six of his own compositions' in total, the second repeats the Piano Quintet as Op. 8 and adds the woodwind quartet pieces, the string pieces and the Rhapsody under a '[First performances below]' heading. The Derbyshire Times citation carries no date.
Source
Nottingham Journal, 21 October 1933 Nottingham Journal, 21 October 1933 Nottingham Journal, 21 October 1933 Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald, 28 October 1933 Belper News, 27 October 1933 Derbyshire Times
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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