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- ↑ LA Opera news release, "LA Opera Announces Appointment of Roberto Cani as Concertmaster of the LA Opera Orchestra," May 10, 2011, http://www.laopera.org/DocumentsLAO/press/1112/RobertoCani_Concertmaster.pdf
- ↑ New Century Chamber Orchestra website, "About Us," http://ncco.org/about/about-us/
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