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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.

1940

Concert

3rd NovemberBrookhill Hall

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)
Programme
Coke
Two Cello Sonatas
Coke
Elegiac Trio for piano, violin and cello in C minor, Op. 32
Notes
The Musical Times reported this as the first of three Sunday afternoon concerts Coke had arranged at Brookhill, the proceeds going towards an orchestral concert in Nottingham or Southwell in aid of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. It describes the programme only as two cello sonatas and a piano trio, all by Coke, without naming them.
Source
Musical Times, December 1940 — Coke0341
Provenance
JSTOR (Coke0341)

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