‘Most conspicuous was composer-clarinetist Derek Bermel. He played his Theme and Absurdities, flaunting its stubborn atonality and braying glisses that led finally to a tonal arpeggio broken off by an appoggiatura out of the introduction to “Zarathustra.” Bermel…with pianist Claudio Martinez-Mehner, emphasized both the lyricism and liveliness in his own SchiZm.’ The Village Voice