Concerts

Coke noted by hand that the solo group came after playing the 'xx' concerto, and added 'LONDON DERRY'?. Also documented by Coke's performance list in the cover of the manuscript of the Preludes Op. 33/34. The Source Date column carries one date fewer than the Source column, so the Western Morning News citation is left undated rather than guessed at. In a letter to Myles Hildyard of 7 January 1942 Coke wrote: "I also played my 3rd Concerto for the fourth and fifth time at Buxton and Torquay, with very great success." This is the only Torquay concert recorded, and the Third Concerto, op. 30, is programmed here, which supports reading the concerto Coke left unreadable on the flyer as the Third. He names Buxton before Torquay but does not say which was the fourth. Counting the Bournemouth premiere of 3 August 1939, Brookhill of 22 September 1940 and Southwell of 22 February 1941, Torquay is a fifth performance only if a Buxton performance falls between February and October 1941; no Buxton performance of the concerto is recorded. If instead Coke was counting only the times he had played it himself, the premiere being Charles Lynch's, then a further performance is also unrecorded. Neither reading can be settled from the letter.