This composer also wrote a "foxtrot" in a series of dances which were taken from an opera-in-progress, and he was commissioned to write a work in memory of September 11.
One of this composer's works opens with repeated E minor chords, and that unnamed movement ends with those same chords. The second movement of that work features a long trumpet solo while other groups of instruments pass around minor triads and is titled "The Anfortas Wound." One of this composer's works changes repeatedly between 3/2, 4/2, and 5/2 time and ends after a long trumpet fanfare; that work by this composer of Harmonielehre features a repetitive (*) woodblock beat. This composer also wrote a "foxtrot" in a series of dances which were taken from an opera-in-progress, and he was commissioned to write a work in memory of September 11. For 10 points, name this minimalist composer of On the Transmigration of Souls, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, and The Chairman Dances, which was taken from the early work for his opera, Nixon in China.
One of this composer's works opens with repeated E minor chords, and that unnamed movement ends with those same chords.
John Coolidge Adams