The first movement of another of this composer's works opens and closes with the brass and percussion playing repeated E minor chords.
One of this composer's works has a major theme with two main components: slurred dotted quarter notes of pitches B-A and four slurred quarters of pitches C#, D, up to B, A. That work ends with sandpaper blocks playing sixteenth notes over a hi-hat and woodblock beat. The first movement of another of this composer's works opens and closes with the brass and percussion playing repeated E minor chords. The third movement of that work was inspired by this composer's dream about his daughter Emily, while the second was based on the legend of the (*) Fisher King. Those movements are "Meister Eckhardt and Quackie" and "The Anfortas Wound." This composer of Harmonielehre wrote a "foxtrot for orchestra" that was an "out-take" on one of his operas. That work, The Chairman Dances, is a companion to an opera with choruses like "The Eight Points of Attention" and "The Three Main Rules of Discipline." For 10 points, name this American composer of Nixon in China.
One of this composer's works has a major theme with two main components: slurred dotted quarter notes of pitches B-A and four slurred quarters of pitches C#, D, up to B, A. That work ends with sandpaper blocks playing sixteenth notes over a hi-hat and woodblock beat.
John Coolidge  Adams