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- ↑ Adrian Wright (2010). A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-war British Musical. Boydell & Brewer. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84383-542-4.
- 1 2 Kendall, Alan (2000). The Chronicle of Classical Music. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 240.
- ↑ Cannadine, David (2008). "The 'Last Night of the Proms' in historical perspective". Historical Research . 31 (212): 315–349. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2008.00466.x.
- ↑ Patricia Howard; Richard Wagner (19 September 1985). Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-28356-4.
- ↑ "John Joubert". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ↑ Stewart R. Craggs; Stewart R. Craggs, Professor (1998). Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-0-313-29254-5.
- ↑ John Ramsden (2003). The Dam Busters: A British Film Guide. I.B.Tauris. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-86064-636-2.
- ↑ "Zuleika Dobson as a Musical", The Times, 15 February 1957, p. 3