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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.

1930

Concert

23rd February6.45pmMusic School (unknown)

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) ? de Grey ? Rowe ? Coombe-Tennant ? Baldwin ? Horn ? Longman (flute) ? Philips ? Davson ? Fletcher (clarinet) ? Longson ? McKenna (voice) ? Villiers (voice)
Programme
Coke
Preludes (selection unknown)
Unknown Barcarolle
Handel
Sonata?
An unknown flute sonata
Bach
Adagio from Toccata in C
Unknown folk song
Passion Chorale Prelude
Tell me, where is fancy bred
Notes
The programme survives in two reports. The second is largely unidentified and adds only a piece by Schumann to the items listed here. A further report date, 6 February 1930, survives with no publication to attach it to.
Source
Eton College Chronicle, 27 February 1930
Provenance
Eton (Coke0360–Coke0380)

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