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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.

1942

Concert

2nd JuneAfternoonThe Bishop's Manor, Southwell

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Alan Morton (cello) Alice de Belleroche (guitar) Bridget Tallents (contralto)
Notes
In the large hall of the Bishop's Manor, in aid of the Southwell War Supplies Depot; six days after the Brookhill recital of 27 May and with two of the same artists. Coke played three Rachmaninoff preludes and, with Alan Morton, gave the second performance of his Cello Sonata No. 3. Bridget Tallents sang a set of Coke's songs to poems by Humbert Wolfe, with songs by Lully, Handel and Rachmaninoff. Alice de Belleroche played Borodin's 'Russian Serenade', a Chopin study of her own arranging, traditional Spanish gypsy dances and Albeniz's 'Spanish Legend'.
Source
Nottingham Journal, 3 June 1942 — Coke0534
Provenance
British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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