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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.

1936

Concert

8th MarchEveningBradbury Hall, Chesterfield

Performers
Barbara Welby (soprano) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra Frederic Staton (conductor)
Programme
Coke
Six Songs for soprano or tenor, Op. 19
Coke
Elegy for a Dead Musician for contralto, violin and orchestra (or piano), Op. 16 (withdrawn)
Wagner
Meistersingers Overture
Jarnefelt
Praeludium
Grainger
Shepherd's Hay
Beethoven
Symphony No.5 (Scherzo and Allegro)
Gardiner
Shepherd Fennel's Dance
Tchaikovsky
Andante Cantabile
Weber
Oberon
Source
Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald, 13 March 1936
Provenance
British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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