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- ↑ "Works by Michelle Ekizian and Louis Karchin" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2010.
- ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393034875 . Retrieved December 9, 2010.
- ↑ Edwards, Maurice (2006). How music grew in Brooklyn: a biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra.
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