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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.

1959

Concert

5th November7:45pmScala Theatre, London

Performers
Barbara Welby? Eugene Goossens (conductor) London Symphony Orchestra Imperial Opera Company Ronal Firmager Ronald Stear Geoffrey Walls Patricia Bartlett Audrey Bowman Alicia Conchita Barry McDonald Frank Sale Ignatius McFadyen Patrick Largey
Programme
Coke
The Cenci, Op. 41 (opera in three acts) (Premiere)
Notes
Performance for Richard Austin.
Source
British Music Society Scala Theatre Chevron Magazine Derbyshire Life and Countryside Article Local History Society The Stage, 1 October 1959 The Stage, 12 November 1959 The Stage, 29 October 1959 Goossens Correspondence Goossens Correspondence, 30 October 1959 Goossens Correspondence, 2 November 1959 Goossens Correspondence, 20 November 1959 Goossens Correspondence, 24 August 1959 News article in Derbyshire Record Office News article in Derbyshire Record Office News article in Derbyshire Record Office
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586), Goossens correspondence (Coke0381–Coke0406), Derbyshire Record Office

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