Join us this Saturday at 8pm for the final concert of The Month of Moderns 2017!

Anonymous Man is a concert-length work from Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon. The text is drawn from real life-Gordon's experiences living in a changing neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, meeting his future wife (the composer Julia Wolfe), raising a family, and especially encounters with two homeless men who lived across the street. The piece reaches a surprising epiphany-after the bombing of the neighboring World Trade Center, and a few years later when one of the homeless men dies and Gordon watches the outpouring of sympathy from the community-that evokes Lincoln's funeral train going through the streets of Manhattan, including Desbrosses. The interplay of personalities is beautifully rendered in music, springing from Michael's conversations with the homeless men-serious, funny, mysterious, poetic, and mundane.