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- ↑ Schaefer, John (2019-07-12). "The Secret Sound Of The Vessel Orchestra". WNYC. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- ↑ Gopnik, Adam (2019-08-19). "If You Listen" . The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 23. p. 15. Online: "Making Music from the Met's Forgotten Treasures". The New Yorker. 2019-08-12. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
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- ↑ Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra (Exhibition guide). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2019. OCLC 1109395603. Archived from the original on 2022-04-17.
