Concerts

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.

1950

Concert

9th DecemberLady Tallent's House, Dartford

Performers

Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano)

Programme

Coke

15 Variations and Finale for piano in C minor, Op. 37

Notes

Charity concert, per a handwritten note by Coke. The Free Press report of 19 January 1951 places it at Dartmouth rather than Dartford, with an ink correction over the word that cannot be read.

Source

Free Press, 19 January 1951 — Coke0178

Provenance

Manuscript front cover, Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296)

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