This broadcast features the world premiere of
Anonymous Man,
a concert-length work from Bang on a Can composer
Michael Gordon
. The text is drawn from Gordon's experiences living in a changing neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, meeting his future wife (the composer Julia Wolfe), raising a family, and especially engaging with two homeless men who lived across the street. The interplay of personalities is beautifully rendered in music, springing from Michael's conversations with the homeless men --- serious, funny, mysterious, poetic, and mundane.
The Month of Moderns 3: recorded July 8, 2017