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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.

1939

Concert

6th DecemberAfternoonTerrace Road School Hall, Mansfield [OR Methodist Church School Room, Leeming Street, Mansfield]

Programme
Coke
15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 2 in C, Op. 29
Coke
Six Songs for soprano or tenor, Op. 19
Coke
Four more songs (sung by Will Taylor)
Coke
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 24
Coke
Six [more Songs] (sung by Barbara Welby): I will Tell you What Love is, Love's a Ghost, Romance, November Afternoon
Coke
24 Preludes for piano, Op. 33/34
Notes
Also recorded in Coke's own performance lists, in the front cover of the manuscript of the Variations op. 37 and in the cover of the manuscript of the Preludes opp. 33/34. Only the first of the four press reports is dated, so the remaining three are given without one.
Source
Mansfield Advertiser, 5 December 1939 Mansfield Chronicle Notts Evening Press Derby Daily Telegraph
Provenance
Manuscript front cover, Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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