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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.

1936

Concert

21st JuneAfternoonBrookhill Hall

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Barbara Welby (soprano) Alan Morton (cello)
Programme
Coke
Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 12 (withdrawn)
Rachmaninoff
Four Songs
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 24
Coke
Five Songs
Coke
Berceuse for piano
Coke
Polichinelle and Inventions (in two parts) for piano (Polichinelle)
Coke
Vocal Concerto No. 1, Op. 25
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 24
Coke
Vocal Concerto No. 1, Op. 25
Notes
The repertoire column lists the concert twice; the second account repeats the Cello Sonata Op. 24 as 'Sonatina for piano and cello' and the Vocal Concerto as 'Vocal concerto for vocal and piano comprising three settings from Tennyson's Princess'.
Source
Derbyshire Advertiser, 22 June 1936 Nottingham Journal, 20 June 1936 Derby Daily Telegraph, 19 June 1936 Cello Sonata Op. 24 score Unknown publication Bristol Evening World, 24 June 1936
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586), Chesterfield Library

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