[4] "Sita Rama Encores" features Cherry interacting with the audience, as he teaches them the sixteen-beat Hindustani teental pattern.

[6] In interviews following the performance of "Actions," some of the players commented that, because Penderecki had notated pitches and rhythms, they missed their usual freedom to improvise.

[9][10] In a review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick wrote: "The orchestra is truly an all-star cast of the cream of European improvisers, each and every one having gone on to significant achievements."

"[12] Writing for the BBC, Ian R. Watson commented: "the combustible influences that shaped both pieces are still relevant today and find echoes in the work of Butch Morris and myriad others... this is still damn fine music of any stripe that can be enjoyed without any prior knowledge of its participants whatsoever.

"[14] Phil Freeman, writing for Burning Ambulance, called "Actions" one of the "essential documents of large scale avant-jazz," praising its "swinging ensemble passages interspersed with frequently raucous but sometimes quite beautiful solo and duo sections.