This composer called for tape recordings of city traffic, footsteps, and a siren at the start of a piece played against the backdrop of voices reciting of a long (*) list of names.
A piano piece by this composer begins in the Lydian mode of A and oscillates between two modes as it repeatedly modulates around the circle of fifths. "Hymning Slews" and "Loops and Verses" are the inner movements of a piece by this composer said to remind him of the energetic dancing of the title sect. This composer called for tape recordings of city traffic, footsteps, and a siren at the start of a piece played against the backdrop of voices reciting of a long (*) list of names. A boy's voice repeats the word "missing" in the rhythm of a heartbeat at the start of a "memory space" by this composer that sets text from the New York Times's "Portraits of Grief" and was commissioned after the September 11 attacks. For 10 points, name this composer of Phrygian Gates, Shaker Loops, On the Transmigration of Souls, and the opera Nixon in China.
A piano piece by this composer begins in the Lydian mode of A and oscillates between two modes as it repeatedly modulates around the circle of fifths.
John Adams [or John Coolidge Adams; do not accept "John Luther Adams"]