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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.

1956

Concert

24th JanuaryEveningAlbert Hall Institute, Nottingham OR Tuesday Club, Nottingham

Performers
John Williams (piano) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Stella Osbourne (soprano)
Programme
Bach
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring arr. Williams
Coke
15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37
Notes
The programme also included vocal pieces by Bach and Handel, which the source does not name individually. The venue is given as either the Albert Hall Institute or the Tuesday Club, both in Nottingham.
Source
Guardian Journal, 25 January 1956
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), Manuscript front cover

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