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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.

1929

Concert

3rd NovemberEton College

Performers
R.J. Horn (piano) M.R.S Philips (violin) J. De Grey (piano) C.E.W Montagu Douglas Scott (voice) D.G. Longman (flute) B.G.S Cayzer (piano) C.S. Barnett (voice) R.G. Rowe (piano) D. McKenna (voice) R.F. Oakes (piano) J.M.A. Ridley (cello) P. Proby (cello) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) C.M. Fletcher (clarinet) E.A.St.C.D. Davson (violin) A.W. Allen (violin) A. Derville (piano)
Programme
Beethoven
Adagio from Sonata No.8
Dvorak
Sonatina in G (first movement)
Chopin
Preludes Op. 28, No.1 and 23
Purcell
Nymphs and Shepherds
Handel
Sonata in A
Paderewski
Nocturne
Purcell
Fairest Isle
Palmgren
Night in May
Goossens
The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Goossens
The Musical Box
Handel
Love in her eyes sits playing
Arensky
Arabesque
Lee
Duo for two cellos
Chopin
Impromptu in A♭
Mozart
Clarinet Quintet (larghetto)
Purcell
Sonata for two violins
Chopin
Waltz
Source
Eton College Chronicle, 7 November 1929
Provenance
Eton (Coke0360–Coke0380)

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