For 10 points, identify this composer of Short Ride in a Fast Machine and On the Transmigration of Souls, whose other orchestral works include the Chairman Dances from his opera Nixon in China.
In the third movement Toccare of one of this man's works, the orchestra plays a high A on all the off-beats as the solo instrument plays a sixteenth-note melody that runs up and down the scale. That work, his Violin Concerto, was premiered by Jorja Fleezanis of the Minnesota Orchestra. He wrote the unusually quiet fanfare Tromba Lontana a year after composing a work whose movements depict the wounded Fisher King and a dream involving his daughter and Meister Eckhart, his Harmonielehre. This man composed a "Fanfare for Great Woods" that features an ostinato woodblock rhythm. Another of his works opens with a child saying "listen" and features a chorus reading names of missing people; that work was composed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. For 10 points, identify this composer of Short Ride in a Fast Machine and On the Transmigration of Souls, whose other orchestral works include the Chairman Dances from his opera Nixon in China.
In the third movement Toccare of one of this man's works, the orchestra plays a high A on all the off-beats as the solo instrument plays a sixteenth-note melody that runs up and down the scale.
John Coolidge Adams