Tages-Anzeiger, Switzerland:   "The celebrated FINE ARTS QUARTET introduced for their first evening at the TONHALLE the Fourth Quartet by the American composer Gene Gutchë which revealed the composer not only as a significant craftsman but one who captivates an audience with originality, fascinates it with his musical imagination and a technique uniquely his own . . . ."

New York Times :   "Gutchë's new quartet hews to neither technique.   In other words, here is a composer who can move around.   The musical ideas he works with are simple and easy to hear, . . . "

New York Herald Tribune :   "In this quartet Gutchë proves to be a man of considerable technical prowess . . ."

Daily Oklahoman:   "The pinnacle of string writing was given a performance long to be remembered.   Gene Gutchë's Opus 29, No. 1 . . . was a lesson in dynamics and the ethereal effects reached a pitch of both emotion and drama . . . ."