Word: toch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presenting its third concert of the season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play before a Harvard audience in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The following program has been arranged: Hill Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 34 Toch "Big Ben," Variation Fantasy on the Westminster Chimes Brahms Symphony in E minor...
...monthly meeting of the New York Microscopical Society pursued its calm way fortnight ago until Dr. Maximilian Toch, michro-chemist, arose to speak. Dr. Toch's specialty is the analysis of paint, the verification of works of art by microphotography. To the assembled scientists he showed numerous lantern slides, explained his theory: a painting may be identified by magnification of the artist's brushstrokes, which are as characteristic as his handwriting. Like a firecracker came a specific statement: None of the Rembrandts in the Metropolitan Museum is genuine, with the possible exception of The Gilder from the Havemeyer Collection...
Assistant curators insisted that the new label had nothing to do with the remarks of Micro-Chemist Toch, the painting had been reassigned to Drost (a Rembrandt pupil) several months ago when the picture was cleaned...
Hermann Voss, curator of paintings in the Berlin State Museums, rushed off a boat in New York harbor bristling with indignation. "I would like to ask Dr. Toch," said he, "whether he means to oppose the opinion of the entire artistic world with regard to the authenticity of works believed today to have been painted by Rembrandt...