One of this composer's pieces uses the same text from "The Orchestra" in its second and fourth movements, and uses a D dorian minor center in its fifth movement, based on "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower."  
One of this composer's pieces uses the same text from "The Orchestra" in its second and fourth movements, and uses a D dorian minor center in its fifth movement, based on "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower."  In addition to the William Carlos Williams-inspired The Desert Music, he set the Hebrew text of some psalms to music in his Tehillim. Another work is based on a cycle of eleven chords introduced in the "Pulses" section.  He incorporated tape loops with a string quartet in a work that includes interviews about World War II and offers parallels between the composer's journeys between New York and Los Angeles and those of Jews during the Holocaust. He also created the Music for 18 Musicians and utilized the phasing process in works like Drumming. FTP, name this minimalist composer of Different Trains.
One of this composer's pieces uses the same text from "The Orchestra" in its second and fourth movements, and uses a D dorian minor center in its fifth movement, based on "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower."  
Steve Reich