Concerts

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 NovemberChesterfield

Performers

Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra Frederic Staton (conductor) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)

Programme

Coke

Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 4 (withdrawn)

Coke

Three String Pieces, Op. 5

Notes

The Derbyshire Times report is undated; the cutting appears to be that of 27 October 1933.

Source

Belper News, 27 October 1933 Derbyshire Times

Provenance

British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586), Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296)

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