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it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the

harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are great stories for on opera. i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that. i realized that was something

that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. >> so much our mandate is to

try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas

technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality every little detail is

integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky. you know, disliked by someone

torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪day. >> okay. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. . >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. oh, i like what an active crowd superintendent do you want to

come up and join us, please. thank you. good morning. i'm hyde draw mendosa the advisors and an elected member to on the brvks this one off my favorite fester we get to thank the amazing teachers and principles. can we start by acknowledging our folks (clapping) i whether those want to start by acknowledging some of our electives i've happy to have our electives to sale hello to our honor the passenger seat of the board of education a my other

colleagues imperative joe winning and (clapping) commissioner emily will be joining us and from the board of supervisors we have our wonderful supervisor wiener from districts 8 and eric mar from district one and the others will be joining us as we roll along. i also want to acknowledge susan solomon in the educators association additional natalie from be molecule school and this event privileges many amazing donors a so as you look around each table is filed with stuff the one table is per honorary necessity not a table with

everyone's stuff each honorary is getting getting gives gi i was i want to rattle off about your sponsors you guys up front gets to go really arrest alcatraz and california academy of sciences my the "x" platform and the gap warriors and health and school board and international art museum of america and microsoft and peer 24 and san francisco 49ers and sincerely monday nights mall and starbuck's thank you all for abstracting to our really cool pact. i want to thank the department of the children youths for putting on the events and san

francisco educational fund for our wards and captioned every year and our united educators and administers i want to thank the blue ribbon panel they've narrowed down our 3 hundred nomination to 5 it's a huge task i want to thank you from the mayor's office that's tremendous responsibility and they divorced and angie and from the school district and our did not schools and stefan and we added a youth this year so restraining order anyone gomez from our youth dimension so thank you (clapping) and i couldn't have done this without the tremendous help and support of florence i hope

you'll all had a skfgs with neutrons thank you and every year she ranched it up theirselves this year we'll have $30,000 and let me tell you how this works everyone goes and we start the nomination process so the nomination come from parent and students and community members they tell us been pa wonderful way to get people involved we go through a rigorous vesting process including the numbers years and having an "x" last year evaluation so we run 0 through the mill and send them to the unit u union and see about red flags and bring them through our

blue ribbon panel and talk to the students and teachers sometimes classroom visits how close things are and take them to the mayor and is okay. here's your 20 choices bic 2 and he gets an opportunity to look at our amazing counterparts educators so we chris choose 5 maiming teachers from pre k to middle and one high and the same for the principles. that's kind of how the process works this year 3 hundred nomination for our teachers which made it extremely difficult and over 60 nominatess for you're a principles. and who helps me make all this happen is our amazing leader in

san francisco so at this time i want to chat a mom how the mayor connects the dots it's not just about tang teachers or principles but we is a city to partner with the school district to do the work so i wanted to quickly reflect around preschool and our college and baby accounts our pre k and our middle school grades initiative this e which already raised $8 million for our mimdz and the technology devices into the hands of the students. he was with the prnltz and will be with the middle east grade teachers to thank for the initiative he does thirty to:30 individual scholarships for our

high school students and college students to make the e funds possible and our bridge to success doubling the number of protecting students to go to city college we're excited about the looirp there is no doubling doubt he's serious about the public leadership please join me in welcoming mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you hydra isn't that a wonderful logo that's a beautiful logo i'm excited to be here to join you. let me say there's united educators and united administer i represent the ientdz mayors for education i want to start that conversation.

it's a delight to be here and hydra said it's touch to pick out of this but we're glod glad and happy to do that i think every year we look forward to this opportunity that's the unique times why instead of talking about the challenges that we have we should be celebrating the advances we're making in education and i want to say this this pick is part of an overall appreciation for the best sdmuths the the country san francisco (clapping) and we're going to keep doing what i initiated with initial talks with hydra and last night with the members of the school board and certainly our superintendant we're going to love you to perfection i think

that's the way to do it rather than point the finger at what we can't do we can actually builds on the things we're doing here why not we're in the innovation part of the world all i have to do is sit down and explain the passion of our kids it's reflected in everything we do you know the children's fund this november we're renewing public education richmond fund on top of things that hydra listed we have 80 a list to get done but 7 thousand jobs to be gotten for the kids this summer that's the with regard they get for preparing themselves in the classroom or whatever economic challenges they have in their families we as part of the

education system sea part of the great society of san francisco are going looking for ways to support our kids safely and successfully this is the promise of san francisco this is with you do not why we came to work for the city i'm sure each the supervisors like supervisor wiener we talk about the quality of life we all look at the people that came to the city and they want the best education that we can possible have to have is a chance because that's longer than a competition been us and ooshgd or san jose but the whole world how to use our innovation center to produce the best educated kids and exam patient as well as arts and science and technology. we need to have even better