(music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is

being accepted. my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly. i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown

where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program,

that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before. string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work.

23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note.

and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are.

>> hi. i am cory with san francisco and we're doing stay safe and we're going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we're here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san

francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been

focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about

was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent

of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody.

>> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place

after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and - nk you very much for joining (clapping) 10 years ago pam and i were here at the at&t park to celebrate the hearts of san francisco who's vision i know we've told you over the years the long xoufl and wonderfully to nancy

and her partner. since then this is our way of caring on parse in san francisco and trying to honor the origin vision that ellen and nancy had. we now call the hospital of san francisco the general the heart of the city my the hearts project has since then support $11 million worth of projects in the hospital (clapping) we're so glad for that, too because the general has shown us everyday it's such a gem this hospital inparalleled by other cities by it's care for the

welfare and the house of all it's citizens and it's expertise and cutting-edge is amazing. it's a vial access and provide 24 hours traumatic care it serves nearly one hundred thousand adults every year and pediatric patients as well and as we saw after the air liner intensities it's there are 90 for any countries twenty-four hours a day. with this year's hearts events lisa and psychic letter if i get a chance to see has been totally amazing

(clapping) we have been able to support care for elderly patient in order to reduce readmission rate to provide a van that goes into the community and anyway's that underserved women have man and woman grams and the snit is conducting innovative research and training with worldwide impact it helps the foundation fund project that may otherwise go unfunded by general. so thank you, thank you all it's through all of you who are here today that the foundation has been able to help so many patients and families in this community. we want to thank the long time

partners and new partners who have helped us to wuf in those events chevron energy solutions and wells fargo (clapping) at&t intel and pg&e pier 39 and stan will i organization and webb core (clapping) the brim key foundation and macy's and keying and candy robertson and a union bank and unit health and walgreen's (clapping) a enlightenment thank you goes to fidel and bone american

people at the time management for fine foods he produces a thousand meals at the same time it's amazing (clapping) we want to thank the families for their lines and the san francisco giants for their participating in sponsoring those events (clapping) thanks to at&t and ebay for dpoot the technology for credit cards donation on site today and finally, all the staff and hardworking committee members at the foundation. with all the staff at the general those are our real heros all the staff at general will

you please stand. fo folks (clapping) so at aboutly lead by the susan carlyle who is the usf dean and carlos and we even have here today, our former ceo at the hospital jean o'connell (clapping) now here's some people i really want to introduce you to. they matter in the city a r and are committed to the welfare of

the hospital. first of all, geena moscone who's husband everyone knows was mayor (clapping) i want to introduce you to the former police achieve and the former mayor a man frank jordan (clapping) i want to introduce you to the man who was the majority leader and the speaker in the assembly for many years wonderful political power the only person former mayor willie brown

(clapping) and the mayor who seems to be having a wonderful time everyday he's an enthusiastic bolster and loves his job mayor ed lee (clapping) this year we have a lot of city support we also have the city attorney dennis herrera. we have supervisors supervisor wiener and supervisor farrell and supervisor tang (clapping) we have the couple that i think is on the revises running this

city naomi and highland kelly he's the manager of the puc his e-mail is sf city water this is the couple to watch (clapping) we have the current police achieve in his uniform greg surand the fire achieve joanne and she's in uniform also (clapping) house commissioner david singer and health commissioner david sanchez who runs the whole health system for the city barbara garcia.

we have the interim chandler uscf sam hartford (clapping) that's an important relationship that's an important partnership for over a hundred years we do a lot of training for uscf and they are the wonderful faculty who do the research and care at san francisco general. then barbara sclur who is on the r s commission and wait till you see the new hospital (clapping) last but not least in the best valentine's day hat you ever saw achieve of protocol charlotte

(clapping.) i have to add reverend cecil thank you for being here and helping with the homes we may serve them you it's because of you >> hello, i'm pam bearer. today, i'm speaking first hand many of you here today in this majestically tent have heard my story i attend many baseball games. sitting right there on the field with our four children but one day over 10 years ago our son ran through a glass door and was

taken by paramedics to san francisco general hospital. our sons life was saved at the general. there are others here today who have been saved at the general. falling down a flight of stairs and falling open a marble door at the symphony and being hit simply going to diner or simply crossing the street in downtown san francisco. our firefighters, our police who protect us daily are taken there. children from broken homes abuse of homes are taken there. friends, cousins or simply strangers who might be homes all