Adapted from a note by Michael Borisksin: Originally written for oboe and piano, transcribed by the composer forclarinet and piano, ""SchiZm"" is made up of two highly contrasting movements. The first, Field of Stars, is a short,eerily-still musical puzzle with a seemingly strong Middle-Eastern flavor. Three separate metric cycles (in theclarinet/oboe, the piano left hand, and the piano right hand) come together every 60 beats and dictate the expansiveharmonic structure. The second movement, ""Puppet State,"" is lively and whimsical, in which a variety of genres --an animated salsa, a languid habanera, and a sultry klezmer-tango -- are juxtaposed.