[purgatorio] POPOPERA

Composer Michael Gordon is the co-founder and co-director of New York's Bang on a Can new music festival. Although he was born in Florida, Gordon grew up in an Eastern European community in Nicaragua. He eventually returned to the U.S. and studied composition with Martin Bresnick at Yale, and played in various rock bands in N.Y.C. His works have been performed by the Icebreaker ensemble of London ("Trance" and "Yo Shakespeare"), Ensemble Modern ("Love Bead"), and the Michael Gordon Philharmonic....