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- ↑ ASCAP: 7th Annual Concert Music Awards
- ↑ Peabody Opera: Ten Years On – A Return to With Blood, With Ink by Peter M. Krask
- ↑ "A Pathbreaking Nun Forced Into Silence" by Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal , May 12, 2014
- ↑ "A 17th-century nun raises touchy questions in Fort Worth opera" by Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News , April 26, 2014
