text: In a suite by this composer, a hexatonic folk tune for English horn plays over pulsing pizzicato strings in the opening of the "Super-Sadness" movement.
full_question: In a suite by this composer, a hexatonic folk tune for English horn plays over pulsing pizzicato strings in the opening of the "Super-Sadness" movement. He included the melodies to "Laredo" and "Git Along Little Dogies" in the "Cowboy Songs"movement of a film score that he wrote for Pare Lorentz. One of his operas concludes with a "Funeral Hymn" beginning with the words "Where is where." This composer, who derived his Acadian Songs and Dances from the film score to Louisiana Story, wrote the score to The Plow that Broke the Plains. In another of his operas, one character describes a Vision of the Holy Ghost with the words "Pigeons on the grass, alas." He served from 1940-1954 as the music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. His collaborations with Gertrude Stein include operas about Teresa of Avila and Susan B. Anthony. For 10 points, name this composer of The Mother of Us All and Four Saints in Three Acts.
first_sentence: In a suite by this composer, a hexatonic folk tune for English horn plays over pulsing pizzicato strings in the opening of the "Super-Sadness" movement.
raw_answer: Virgil Thomson