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- Notes
- ↑ Anderson (2008)
- ↑ Gilgan, Danyel (18 July 2020). "The extraordinary artistic camps for unemployed ironstone miners". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ↑ Myers (2004)
- ↑ North (2009)
- Sources
- Anderson, Don (2008) Program Notes: Nakamatsu Plays Mozart, The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Accessed 31 October 2008.
- Myers, Alan (2004) Sir Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998), Myers Literary Guide: The North-East (online version first published in 2004 with the Centre for Northern Studies). Accessed 31 October 2008.
- North, John (2009) The Northern Echo, UK, A Snippet Of Tippett
- See also http://ironawecleveland.blogspot.it/2009/11/snippet-of-tippett-2.html
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