‘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