{"id":1385,"date":"2016-07-29T17:49:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2016-07-29T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:50:12","slug":"bermel-one-of-bowdoins-success-stories-portland-press-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dworkincompany.com\/pressandevents\/2016\/07\/29\/bermel-one-of-bowdoins-success-stories-portland-press-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"Bermel: One of Bowdoin’s Success Stories (Portland Press Herald)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bermel<\/a>Derek Bermel<\/strong> was featured as a composer and performer at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Allan Kozann, writing for the Portland Press Herald<\/a><\/em><\/span>, \u201cBermel is one of Bowdoin\u2019s success stories. Now a faculty member, he attended the festival as a student 22 years ago\u2026[As a] clarinetist Bermel held the spotlight in Leonard Bernstein\u2019s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano [and] gave it a vital, persuasive performance\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cHis Clarinet Quintet was inspired by the physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, and the piece, with its bent clarinet pitches and sliding string figures, seems to offer a handful of inventive musical depictions of gravity at w\"Bermel<\/a>ork\u2026It also draws on Bermel\u2019s passion for weaving elements from other cultures into Western forms. At times, the clarinet writing took on characteristics of Asian or Middle Eastern music; elsewhere, its oscillating string lines and kaleidoscopic clarinet figures gave it an otherworldly quality, free of connections to time or place, and entirely Bermel\u2019s own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read Kozann\u2019s complete review here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derek Bermel was featured as a composer and performer at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Allan Kozann, writing for the Portland Press Herald, \u201cBermel is one of Bowdoin\u2019s success stories. Now a faculty member, he attended the festival as a…<\/p>\n

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