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- ↑ "Parsifal at Covent Garden in 1914". Monsalvat. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ↑ Hurd, Michael (1983). "Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour". Hyperion . Retrieved 2014-09-01.
- ↑ "Glastonbury Musical Festival". Central Somerset Gazette. Glastonbury. 7 August 1914. p. 5.
- ↑ "Metropolitan Gossip – The King and Queen at a Patriotic Concert". The Grantham Journal. 31 October 1914. p. 5.
- ↑ Connock, Stephen (October 1999). "The Edge of Beyond". Journal of the RVW Society (16): 3–6.
- ↑ "The Theatrical Week", The Times, 8 February 1915, p. 10
- ↑ "Death of Robert Hope-Jones" (19 September 1914) Music Trade Review