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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.

1933

Concert

9th November3pmBath Pump Room

Performers
Messers J.D. Willams (violin) James Kershaw (violin) Mr. James Kershaw (cello) Brier Vestey (cello) Roger Sacheverell Coke (piano) Harold Dixon L.R. Baker Harry Lipman William Tweddle Harold Woodward (flute) John Bennison (clarinet) Algy McCordall William McDonald Wifred Wade (piano)
Programme
Coke
Three String Pieces, Op. 5
Coke
Rhapsody for piano, oboe and bassoon, Op. 6 (withdrawn)
Coke
Romanza for piano trio, Op. 2 (withdrawn)
Coke
Piano Quintet, Op. 8 (withdrawn)
Coke
Fantasie for piano, Op. 3 (withdrawn)
Coke
Three Small Pieces for wind quartet, Op. 7 (withdrawn)
Schubert
Trout Quintet
Notes
James Kershaw appears to have played both violin and cello. Ten report dates survive against six publications; the six listed here are paired in the order recorded, and the remaining four — 3 November 1933, twice, and 10 and 11 November 1933 — are left unattached rather than guessed at.
Source
Bath Chronicle and Herald, 10 November 1933 Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, 4 November 1933 Tatler Magazine, 18 October 1933 Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, 10 November 1933 Western Daily Press, 4 November 1933 Western Daily Press, 4 November 1933
Provenance
Coke's Scrapbook (Coke0142–Coke0296), British Newspaper Archive (Coke0409–Coke0586)

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