For 10 points, name this composer who had Robert Oppenheimer sing John Donne's sonnet "Batter my heart" in Doctor Atomic, and dramatized the titular visit between Chou En-Lai, Mao Zedong, and the titular American president in Nixon in China.
This man used the term "hypermelody" to describe the playing of the solo instrument in a piece whose second movement is entitled "Chaconne: body through which the dream flows", his Violin Concerto.  An early piano composition alternates between Lydian and the titular mode in his Phrygian Gates, while a more recent work takes some of its lyrics from Muriel Rukeyser, the Smyth report, and the Bhagavad-Gita.  In his best-known work, the title character is taken to a pig farm and sings "News has a kind of mystery".  That work was a collaboration with librettist Alice Goodman.  For 10 points, name this composer who had Robert Oppenheimer sing John Donne's sonnet "Batter my heart" in Doctor Atomic, and dramatized the titular visit between Chou En-Lai, Mao Zedong, and the titular American president in Nixon in China.
This man used the term "hypermelody" to describe the playing of the solo instrument in a piece whose second movement is entitled "Chaconne: body through which the dream flows", his Violin Concerto.  
John {Adams}