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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.

1930

Concert

6th JulyBradfield College

Performers
R.J. Horn (piano) A Markham (piano) A.W. Allen (violin) R.G. Rowe (piano) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) D.G. Longman (flute) C.A. Ridley (flute) D.C. Baldwin (piano) C.H. Villiers (voice)
Programme
Saint-Saens
Variations No.1-4 on a Theme of Beethoven
Saint-Saens
Trio from Sonata in E♭ Op. 31 for two pianos
Handel
Two Movements from Sonata in A for violin and piano
Chopin
Etude in A♭
Chopin
Prelude in C minor
Mozart
Duo for two flutes
Chopin
Nocturne in E♭ Op. 9/2
Butterworth
The lads in their hundreds
Graham Peel
In Summertime on Bredon
C.H. Lloyd
Minuet for clarinet and piano
Schumann
Romance No.2
Bach
Suite for flute in B minor
Notes
The report is dated 10 July 1930, though not with certainty.
Source
Eton College Chronicle
Provenance
Eton (Coke0360–Coke0380)

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