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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.

1932

Concert

26th October3pm & 8pmPump Room, Bath

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Pump Room Orchestra
Programme
Coke
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 (withdrawn)
Mozart
Symphony No. 32 In E♭
Beethoven
Fidelio Overture
Lacombe
Mascarade
Respighi
The Fantastic Toyshop (Rossini-Respighi)
Notes
The last item in the programme is given as 'Rossini-Respighi, The Fantastic Toyshop'. It is Respighi's arrangement of Rossini, and the double attribution is kept in the title. The Chevron Magazine report is dated only to 1962.
Source
Chevron Magazine Bath Chronicle, 27 October 1932 Western Daily Press, 27 October 1932 Bristol Evening World, 27 October 1932 Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 29 October 1932 Western Daily Press, 27 October 1932 Tatler Magazine, 28 October 1932
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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