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...TOCH Flushing...
...varsity squawk team easily best M.I.T., 8 to 1, yesterday on the Toch courts for their second straight intercollegiate victory. The Crimson will be bost and favored to best Wesleyan Saturday...
...first work was Notturno, by Austria-born Ernst Toch, who now lives in California. It turned out to be a modest idyl that the 66-year-old composer describes as "visions of the night." Its strings and woodwinds sang sweetly, the orchestra played it well, and the small (about 200) crowd thought it was a fitting beginner for the series...
Conductor Robert Whitney was happy to start the project quietly; his load will grow in the next four years. This week he will repeat the Toch Notturno and add Sinfonietta Flamenca by Spain's Carlos Surinach. Next week he will repeat both and add Rhapsody for Orchestra by the University of Louisville's twelve-tone Composer George Perle. The following week he will repeat all three and add a new student work. After four performances, each work will be dropped and another new one substituted...
...Toch has been defeated several times this season and is therefore a distinct underdog, but the booters have taken no chances of losing through overconfidence as they prepare for the contest...