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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.

1933

Concert

26th NovemberEveningBradbury Hall, Chesterfield

Performers
Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra Frederic Staton (conductor) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Jack Woodhead (voice) Doris Cutts (accompaniment)
Programme
Chopin
Funeral March
Wagner
Meistersingers Overture
Coke
Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 4 (withdrawn)
Blow blow, thou winter wind
I'd rather wait for Jane
Lute Player
Cavalcade
Mendelssohn
Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo)
Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals
Notes
Coke's Three Pieces for Strings were on the bill but there was no time to play them, so they are not listed in the programme here; the Derbyshire Times had announced that 'three short compositions for strings' would also be performed. The four unattributed songs are stock recital fare and are not assumed to be Coke's. The publication of the third report is uncertain.
Source
Nottingham Journal, 27 November 1933 Derbyshire Times, 30 November 1933 Nottingham Journal?, 25 November 1933 Derbyshire Times, 2 December 1933 Nottingham Journal, 25 November 1933 Nottingham Journal, 25 November 1933 Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald, 28 October 1933
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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