This composer shares his name with the Alaskan composer of In the White Silence.
This composer shares his name with the Alaskan composer of In the White Silence. His opera about the transforming Indian girl Kumudha is called A Flowering Tree, and he wrote about a 1994 earthquake in I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. He also composed an opera set during the preparation for the Trinity test and one about the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, as well as one which features the "Chairman Dances." For 10 points, identify this American minimalist composer of Doctor Atomic, The Death of Klinghoffer, and Nixon in China.
This composer shares his name with the Alaskan composer of In the White Silence.
John Coolidge {Adams}