One of this man's compositions contains a sole character named "M" who hears aliens tell him "It is pointless to remember." One of his operas includes a crowd of men wearing top hats and gas masks passing around cannonballs until they suffocate, and also contains a scene in which a crowd is obliterated after a rocket blasts off from the Statue of Liberty's head.  In addition to that work that juxtaposes an (*) ice-age landing of aliens with Christopher Columbus's trip, he set poems like "Aunt Rose" and "Father Death Blues" as songs in another opera. This man composed an opera that begins by depicting the "Kuru field of justice," and another of his operas alternates b
One of this man's compositions contains a sole character named "M" who hears aliens tell him "It is pointless to remember." One of his operas includes a crowd of men wearing top hats and gas masks passing around cannonballs until they suffocate, and also contains a scene in which a crowd is obliterated after a rocket blasts off from the Statue of Liberty's head.  In addition to that work that juxtaposes an (*) ice-age landing of aliens with Christopher Columbus's trip, he set poems like "Aunt Rose" and "Father Death Blues" as songs in another opera. This man composed an opera that begins by depicting the "Kuru field of justice," and another of his operas alternates between Year 17 and present-day, in addition to works like 1000 Airplanes on the Roof and The Voyage.  For 10 points, name this composer who used the poetry of the autistic Christopher Knowles as the basis for the "knee plays" that make up one of his operas, the composer of Hydrogen Jukebox, Satyagraha, Akhnaten, and Einstein on the Beach.
One of this man's compositions contains a sole character named "M" who hears aliens tell him "It is pointless to remember.
Philip Morris {Glass}