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...Ernst Toch: Quintet, Op. 64 (Kaufman Quartet and the composer at the piano; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Austrian Atonalist Toch takes time out from writing music for Hollywood pictures to do a quiet, methodical job of concert-hall hair-raising...
Last April the blow-out ended with a near-riot when some students from Toch kidnapped Rochester, Jack Benny's negro stooge who was one of the top-listed performers on the program, and brought him in well-guarded at the close of the get-together...
...20th anniversary. Participating were twelve of the world's best-known chamber-music players, the famed Roth, Gordon and Kolisch Quartets. On the list of new quartets and quintets to be chambered were recent works by U. S. Composers Frederick Jacobi and Louis Gruenberg, Austrian Composers Ernst Toch and Anton von Webern, British Composer Frank Bridge...
Berkshire Chamber Music (Wed., Thurs., Fri. 4 p. m., CBS) in its 21st festival, from South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Performances by Pianists Jesús Maria Sanroma, Ernst Toch, Flutist Georges Barrère, the Roth String Quartet...
...Captain van Toch, blue-eyed, beery Dutch mariner, trading for pearls along the coast of Sumatra, made the first discovery: he found, in a little-visited bay on one of the islands, a family of giant newts that walked erect when on land, could be taught to use a pearl-diver's knife and other tools, and could even, with coaching, learn to talk. Finished rubbing his eyes, simple-minded van Toch planned merely to use his pets for pearl-fishing, but he had to get capital to do it, and once capital got involved in the thing there...