The last of three programmes featuring the music of California. Grand Pianola Music
'My ideal is to make the orchestra resonate and sound beautiful, to make it purr.' In a small town near his home in Berkeley, California, John Adams talks about his work and conducts his Grand Pianola Music, a humorous and affectionate parody of the music he remembers from his childhood: 'There's village band music, very Ivesian, there's gospel music, there's duelling pianos that sound like the Beethoven Emperor Concerto, there's big band jazz music - it expresses me and my experiences as an American musician, and it's a lot of fun as well!' Lighting cameraman
PHILIP BONHAM-CARTER Sound BRUCE GALLAWAY Film editor JEFF SHAW
Executive producer DENNIS MARKS Director MICHAEL MACINTYRE