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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.

1941

Concert

27th April2.45pmMusic Room at Brookhill Hall, Pinxton

Performers
Bridget Tallents (contralto) Alan Morton (cello) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)
Programme
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 2 in C, Op. 29
Coke
Six Songs (Since yesterday we met; Tis Time; Before the Image; Brooding; All once I gladly owned; Come let us rest)
Coke
15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37
Coke
Six Songs for contralto or bass, Op. 42 (Premiere)
Coke
Poem for cello, piano and small orchestra, Op. 36
Notes
Also documented by Coke's performance list in the front cover of the manuscript of the Variations Op. 37, by the score of the Poem for cello and piano with orchestra in the Derbyshire Record Office, and by Coke's Poem score in the Chesterfield Archive.
Source
Stanley Berrill, 27 April 1941 Mansfield Reporter, 2 May 1941 Nottingham Journal, 16 April 1941
Provenance
Concert Programmes collection, Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), Manuscript front cover, British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586), Derbyshire Record Office, Chesterfield Library

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