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- ↑ Roscoe Orman Sesame Street Dad: Evolution of an Actor 2006 1592992102 p.13 "She and her husband, the gifted composer-musician Norman Curtis, recruited me and others among my 1962 graduating class at A&D to join the cast of their topical musical revue If We Grow Up."
- ↑ Norman Curtis - REC Music Foundation Composer: Norman Curtis (b. 1933). Alphabetic listing of art song and choral settings in the database.
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series Library of Congress. Copyright Office - 1967 - Page 183 FREEDOM CALLING; w Patricia Taylor Curtis, m Norman Curtis. Score (27 p.) © Norman Curtis ft Patricia Taylor Curtis;
- ↑ The New Yorker 1968 - Volume 44, Page 6 "Most of the music is by Norman Curtis and most of the words are by Patricia Taylor Curtis."
- ↑ Donald Fitch Blake Set to Music: A Bibliography of Musical Settings of the Poems p.55 "Mad Blake; a musical, book by Elyse Curtis, music by Elyse and Norman Curtis"
- ↑ The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon 1959 " Peggy will sing selections from the new song cycle "Songs of Innocence" by Norman Curtis, with the composer at the piano. A capacity audience is expected at the Lyon-Healy Concert Hall."
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