This man's early works include the string septet Shaker Loops and the piano piece Phrygian Gates.   
This man's early works include the string septet Shaker Loops and the piano piece Phrygian Gates.   His time as composer in residence for the San Francisco Symphony produced works like a tribute to the Second Viennese School, Harmonielehre, and a choral work using the text of a John Donne poem and two Emily Dickinson poems, Harmonium.  He used missing persons reports, internet postings, and cell phone conversations as the text for his 9/11 tribute, On the Transmigration of Souls, and wrote operas about the hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the visit of a President to a certain country. FTP name this modern American composer of The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China.
This man's early works include the string septet Shaker Loops and the piano piece Phrygian Gates.   
John Adams