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- ↑ Strange Attractors webpage at Albany Records website
- ↑ Foerster: Dreams, Memories and Impressions webpage at Brilliant Classics website
- ↑ Mucha: Macbeth & Other Orchestral Works / Weiser, Hradec Kralove Philharmonic webpage at ArkivMusic website
- ↑ MACBETH and Other Orchestral Works by Geraldine Mucha webpage at ArcoDiva label website
- ↑ Shadows Crossing Water webpage at Rattle Records website
- ↑ Archive of radio programs hosted by Goodson at Radio Prague website
- 1 2 "Patricia Goodson". Atari Women. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 18 December 2019.
- ↑ New York University faculty webpage
- ↑ "Remembering Geraldine Mucha," Radio Praha website, 27-Oct-2012
