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.

1934

Concert

29th March3pm and 8pmLeas Cliff Hall, Folkestone

Performers

Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Mr. Eldridge Newman (conductor)

Programme

Schubert

Symphony No.5

Mendelssohn

Hebrides Overture

Coke

Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 4 (withdrawn)

Notes

Rehearsal at 11:15am, open to the public. The concerto was played at the 3pm concert only.

Source

Unknown publication Folkestone Herald, 24 March 1934

Provenance

Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296)

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