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- ↑ Covell, R. The English Eccentrics. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera . Macmillan, London & New York, 1997.
- 1 2 3 Jacobs, Arthur. Non-Opera and Noh-Opera. Opera , August 1964, Vol.15 No.8, p531.
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- ↑ Morley, Christopher. Review of English Eccentrics at Birmingham Conservatoire. Opera, May 2006, Vol.57 No.5, p590-591.
- 1 2 Third Programme, 11 June 1964, Radio Times, No. 2117, 4 June 1964, p49.
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