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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.

1943

Concert

5th DecemberRoyal Institution, Liverpool

Performers
Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)
Programme
Coke
15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37
Notes
Independently corroborated by the household account book kept by Coke's mother at Brookhill. Under 2 December 1943, three days before the concert, she entered "Roger for Liverpool 5. -. -", five pounds for the journey. The same page records three pounds for London on 10 December, the date of his recital at the International Art Centre.
Source
Coke's performance list in the front cover of the manuscript of Variations Op. 37 Dorothy Maye Coke's household account book, December 1943 — Coke0073
Provenance
Manuscript front cover; Brookhill Hall (Coke0073)

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