Viking_Yearbook_64

60 Three times Portland State heard inti– mate sounds of chamber music ; three times PSC students weren 't interested . Famed groups-New Danish String Quartet, Wiener Solisten , and Alma Trio-appeared under ausp ices of the Friends of Chamber Mus ic. The reper– toire included the romantic sonata style compos it ions of Beethoven , Hayden and Mozart and the contemporary Bar– tok and Hindemuth , whose renunc iation of beauty is in itself romant ic gesture. These plus special student prices were expected to attract PSC students , ac– cording to Friends Cha irman , Herbert Gladstone. They didn't. Reed , Lewis and Clark, and the public was there , but not Portland State . " You like it or you don 't ," Gladstone expla ined ph ilosoph ically.