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- ↑ Erica Jeal "King has left the building", The Guardian, 21 October 2005 (accessed 3 October 2007)
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- ↑ Westphal, Matthew. "Conductor Robert King Convicted of Abusing Teenage Boys". Playbill Arts. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ↑ Amy Bourke, Conductor jailed for abusing boys can still teach, Pink News, 6 June 2007 (accessed 2 February 2019)
- ↑ "Taking Note", Gramophone Magazine , April 2009 Issue, p. 13 (accessed 19 November 2009)
- ↑ Hewett, Ivan, "Retrospect Ensemble: the born-again consort", The Daily Telegraph , 29 April 2009 (accessed 19 November 2009)
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- Michael Church, 'We've found some real rarities', The Independent , 24 February 2006
- Stephen Pettit, 'Intimate moments amid the Jubilee jollity', Evening Standard , 14 August 2002
- Neil Fisher, Review of Prom 33: The King's Consort, The Times , 9 August 2006 (accessed 3 October 2007)
