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- ↑ For a video of a discussion of Childs with four winners of the fellowship, see http://ias.umn.edu/2012/09/13/solo-dancer-as-driver/ Archived 2016-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Klucevsek, Guy" . Grove Music Online . Oxford University Press . Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ↑ Kronos Quartet commission of Mary Ellen Childs's "Four of One of Another."
- ↑ Steve Smith, "Worlds Colliding but Never Crashing." Rev. of Bang on a Can Marathon. The New York Times , June 28, 2010.
