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- 1 2 "About Ingpen & Williams International Artists' Management".
Founded in 1946 by Joan Ingpen and her dog Williams, the business passed into the hands of Howard Hartog when Joan Ingpen moved to Covent Garden as artistic administrator at the request of Sir Georg Solti. She subsequently held similar positions at the Paris Opéra and the Metropolitan Opera New York.
- 1 2 "Joan Ingpen". The Daily Telegraph . 9 January 2008.
Today Ingpen & Williams remains a leading player in classical music management, with a roster of artists that includes Pierre Boulez, Alfred Brendel and a host of well-known singers.
[ dead link ] (Article includes photograph of Joan Ingpen with her first husband Alfred Dietz and her business partner Williams the dog.) - 1 2 Sir Georg Solti, Memoirs, p. 130.
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- ↑ Bill Newman (8 April 2006). "The Designer Touch: Tonina Doráti and opera production". Music and Vision classical music daily.
- ↑ European Music in the Twentieth Century. Howard Hartog, ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1976 reprint edition. ISBN 0-8371-8680-3.
- ↑ Herbert Breslin, The King and I, p. 26.
- ↑ Norman Lebrecht (6 September 2007). "He made the world smile". The Lebrecht Weekly, La Scena Musicale, Canada's Free Classical Music Magazine.
- ↑ "Luciano Pavarotti". The Times, London. 6 September 2007.
- ↑ "Ingpen & Williams Artists".
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