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- "Will Johnson Professor of Music (Emeritus) biography page". School of Performing Arts - SSU . Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ↑ Kramer, Jonathan D. 1998. "Karlheinz in California: A Personal Reminiscence." Perspectives of New Music 36, no. 1 (Winter):247–61. p. 248