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- ↑ Susan Tompkin's LinkedIn
- ↑ The Las Vegas Philharmonic: About Archived 2013-11-24 at archive.today . lvphil.org. Retrieved on 2013-11-24.
- ↑ "Las Vegas News | Breaking News & Headlines".
