John Adams - "I Still Dance: A Friendship Formed in Music"

Follow John Adams’s process of composing "I Still Dance," an exuberant 2019 work written to salute longtime collaborator Michael Tilson Thomas’s final season as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony.

Shot on location of San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
Special thanks to the San Francisco Symphony
Copyright © 2020 John Adams, Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Inc.

Music:
I Still Dance, for orchestra
Composed by John Adams
Performed by San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
Courtesy of San Francisco Symphony

Absolute Jest, for orchestra
Composed by John Adams
Performed by St. Lawrence String Quartet, San Francisco Symphony, and Michael Tilson Thomas
Courtesy of SFS Media