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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.

1934

Concert

23rd MayCollege of Nursing (London)

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Brosa Quartet Joy Boughton (oboe) Pauline Juler (clarinet) Gilbert Inglefield (flute) Gilbert Vinter (bassoon)
Programme
Coke
Three Small Pieces for wind quartet, Op. 7 (withdrawn)
Coke
Piano Quintet, Op. 8 (withdrawn)
Coke
Improvisata for violin and piano, Op. 10 (withdrawn)
Notes
The accounts also mention 'sundry other fragments' alongside the named works. Four of the cuttings are dated to the autumn of 1933, well before the concert.
Source
Sunday Times, 27 May 1934 Tatler, 23 May 1934 The Observer, 27 May 1934 Sunday Referee, 27 May 1934 Sunday Times, 27 May 1934 Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald, 28 October 1933 Derbyshire Times Derby Daily Telegraph, 15 November 1933 Belper News, 27 October 1933
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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