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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.

1934

Concert

8th NovemberThe Pavilion, Torquay

Performers
Torquay Municipal Orchestra Lilian Niblette (piano) Ernest W. Goss (conductor)
Programme
Beethoven
Egmont Overture
Edward German
Cloverley Suite
Coke
Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 4 (withdrawn)
Liszt
Symphonic Poem
Chopin
Nocturne in D♭ (solo piano)
Debussy
Toccata (solo piano)
Weber
Invitation to the Valse (arr. Weingartner)
Notes
The three publications carry only two dates between them, both of them uncertain, so no citation is dated here. The Herald cutting says 'last Thursday'; whether that means 9 November 1933 or the week before is unresolved in the source.
Source
Torquay Times Herald and ??? Western Morning News
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296)

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