>> 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

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thing i'm good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. i like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh, they come from a fruit. >> the coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody. in the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops >> we're searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. >> when i wanted to do was get

into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and everything else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. >> one thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blend so that's my pleasure. each bean they were all chosen and blended with each with different cultural and beans is like people and those people give me a reputation i can't buy.

people love you my clients love me they take me to the moves movies. >> fell in love with coffee and went to the coffee shops the community aspect i really enjoyed. >> i think it's important to have a place for people to show up and talk to their neighbors and recorrect. your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities >> i love my city san francisco has a good name my has every cultural in this planet living in san francisco it's a small city 7 by 7 but it's huge.

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the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ from. >> so good morning, everyone so

so much for coming out open a beautiful san francisco summer day blessed by the weather and blessed by having you here to celebrate what is a milestone and an critically important project for transportation for san francisco and only for the distant future but the day the central subway opens that will provide serve for san francisco on my way here i was unable to get on the first stops it was crowded did a b x was packed to the gills a that's exactly the capacity this project will bring to the city from again from the day it opens but for the next generation for all the growth in san francisco particularly to the esdz of san francisco where the t line runs we're happy to be here. a big project didn't happen

overnight it takes years and in this case decades of hard work and vision it takes leadership, it takes a lot of technical diligence and engineering and any member of the public wish to speak on this item and a lot of people too many to be able to thank today but know that a lot of people spent a lot of work trying to marking make this happen. i do want to acknowledge in particular our funding partners leslie from the transit administration and tilly chang in the transportation arthur i don't know if anyone is here from the metropolitan transportation system but we have one representative here we have caltrain a lot of folks working to make that happen and particularly our federal senators barbara boxer and

dianne feinstein and nancy pelosi has been a great champion of this project. we couldn't have done this without her. and i do want to acknowledge the u.s. department of transportation starting from secretary norman who's been that he beginning up to our secretary jonathan fox and a lot of support from our federal leaders to make sure this project happen it is on the ground project it is years of work from a lot of people in the city and county family i'm happy to ask you to join me in welcoming our mayor, mayor ed lee >> thank you edward reiskin and congratulations. i'm sdlltd to be here with our board president david chiu and

i'm sure he's 4th of july which successor team a head and supervisor wiener the district supervisor where i live in that's good as well and you're right i know ed mentioned all the agencies that have been working together and the county the m t c and the liaison representative for caltrain thank you and the board but most important with this milestone i want to thank the community leaders in chinatown and the north telegraph hill they've been pushing this and the signs in the back finishing the subway delighted to see that that that reenforces a decision about 20 or 25 years ago, thirty years

ago we were struggling because we already knew the thirty line was filled ed described and people telling us we've got to improve the transportation system north and south here in the city. this toounl of the two machines today is a mill stoop because literally if you get our right hat on the south central team allows you to see the big alma which is the names of machines have their heads in the retrieval shed to indicated the most part of toounl is finished. it's been about a year worst the drilling underneath and quietly doing its work but the boring part the actual tunnel 8

thousand feet plus a mile and a half through the city reaching south of muscone and the towns and streets underneath union square and through chinatown and now here to north beach. this is a racket mile sown and i want to thank all the people working on the centralized subway project all the laborers and locals and all the labor family of san francisco. mike is here as well the construction trade unions all knocking on wood making sure that is the safety project for all the workers because it is a wonderful project and an expensive one but one that is well worthy san francisco. i can't say enough about the community leader that advocated for this they were able to convinces our leader pelosi and

senator financing to get the money with the help of the president obama but it has always been the community leaders and groups working with our city planning and now i see the president of the planning commission we've got more planning to do in the city a with the leadership i'm working with the board we want you to make sure that it would think of the pronlsz the next two years is serious investments road refargz as well as pedestrian safety we've got to work on that and the street designs to make sure they're designed properly for all of the different modes of transportation so we have reflected in the two year budget very serious contributions to that and, of course, our big decision to make hopefully with all the residents this november $500 million general obligation bond that didn't increase the

property tax in san francisco and yet gives $500 million to our municipal transportation system. i want to thank our san francisco mta and the board here today for their lisp in all of that. transportation is a series expensive matter we have to complete all the transportation systems to make our city work without that and housing and the business relationships that we make we won't see a positive future all of those things have to work together so people can live and work here and get to their jobs. i look forward to working with everyone the careers recorders get all the increased property taxes that will generate from this system to pay for things in the city. thank you everyone for the

success of this project and keeping us constantly focused on the infrastructure in our city. thank you very much (clapping) thank you mr. mayor you can hear the former project director talking about the tunnel how important this type of kind of important infrastructure a project of this size you don't see above the ground. the leadership for this project really all infrastructure in the city a lot of it comes from our board of supervisors and i'm pleased to say that every time an action came green before the board of supervisors related to this project it was adapted by unanimous support by the board of supervisors. that leadership has been consistent and instead of

through the project we're lucky to have the president of the board of supervisors who represented the district where a lot of the construction is happening. throughout this project there's lumps along the road president chiu as stood firm in support of this project many moving forward and it's fair to call him one the chief architects of the plan that actually got us standing here today instead of standing out in front of columbus avenue bill clinton by brokering this to get it off the public right-of-way we had less disruption to the public and facilitated or exceeded the work he exceeded that but the project

that is overall done here today. thank you bringing up president chiu >> good morning north beach i've never been so happy to see a massive hole in the ground i want to welcome our heaviest things weighing seven hundred and 50 tons welcome to the oldest and most historic neighborhoods of our city they've traveled over one and a half miles each and moving one hundred and 14 cubic yards of dirt yaefrd on time and on budget pr i want to take a moment yes give it a hand on time and budget. >> i want to join mayor ed lee

and thanking the leaders who 3 decades ago talked about the density neighborhood outside of manhattan building a new ground subway thank you to the vice presidents and the men and women who are wearing the hard hats and the community from our leaders in chinatown to north beach to telegraph hill and russian hill you came together a few years ago to this site when the theatre needed to be the place where the machines came about and thank you and our colleagues for moving those projects forward i want to say i have a vision that's shared by which i want to thank our colleagues that put together the idea our work is not done we've finished phase within 0 and two but need to move forward with

phase 3. with respect able to get our subway we were with phase two from union square underneath to knob hill but we need to finish the subway all the way down to the bay does montage so thank you, again, for this amazing announcement we've got a lot of work to do by the year 2019 but we'll connect 16 million visitors in the fisherman's wharf and i look forward to working with you to get that done. thanks for being here >> thank you president chiu. members of our board of supervisors serve in multiple different capacities in addition to being one of the strongest

advocates for transportation investment in the city i particularly in the investment in muni and supervisor wiener serves on the transportation commission and serves as at the vice chair of the community transportation authority so, please welcome scott wiener to the mike to say a few words (clapping.) >> morning i had a similar experience that edward reiskin had this morning i got on the subway at castro station and remember thinking that will be nice to switch over to the strool subway instead of walking i got on the 45 and basically was hanging off the edge of the bus i jousted getting to know a number of chinatown residents but it would have been nice to hop on the subway and had more capacity. we know that san francisco is

growing we know we're having one hundred and 50 thousand residents $2 million residents in 2040 and can't assume everyone is going to have a car we don't have the space we have too much congestion we have to expand our public transportation capacity and that means adding to what we have and adding new lines like the central subway we have to make sure this extends to fisherman's wharf mayor ed lee is an advocate for the project and president chiu and our community transportation authority because of the sales tax transportation funding thank you to the voters has provided more $120 million including 43 millions for those boring

machines it's been a great collaboration i want to close by saying there's a narrator in the press about the major transportation whether high speed rail or the central subway or the downtown extension and boy it's will expensive and sometimes, it comes in more expensive then you thought >> boy controversy in terms of alignment and lawsuits so people say it's not worth it back off and let people keep driving for cars and creating for congestion in the city that's not the way to think about it there's not a major transportation project that hadn't taken longer than you thought the golden gate park had more than one hundred lawsuits can you imagine if we hadn't built that we need to

stay the course and extend it to fisherman's wharf from this site thank you. >> (clapping) >> i think we can all support that. the mayor mentioned property tax we're not here to talk about property tax but it's important one that muni gets the biggest set aside of general fund so as the general fund gross the muni services grow and property takes are our revenues they're important to the operations of muni and property tax are important when we issue new depth like the $500 million bond we do it in a way that didn't increase property tax we're able to do that because we're growing the tax basis so there is no

more property base so we're very happy to be joined by our careers recorder in here previous jobs o job in the board of supervisors she helped with the proposals to keep them going. please help me in welcoming carmen chu >> i'm glad when people see me they see dollars and money. anyway, i'm happy to be here i didn't have the same experience scott or drerlg had i drove many in my car there's a lot of construction 2, 3, 4 this city there's no better way to get people out of their cars to have a transportation system that's topnotch and connected and having representatives like this the folks way out in the avenues

i can minimal they have a hard time getting to the downtown think of the places that will be corrected through the central subway i can't think of a better way to get people out of their cars i want to get out here and celebrate and see the hole in the ground but thank you to the public leaders when the subway want first thought of its for the people to get behind this project when there was no advocate and there were community members fiat for the money to be in place when there was no money those are the heross so thank you to all those folks who have done that. thank you >> (clapping)

>> thank you carmen there's a lot of folks that worked on the ground a lot of county leaders if not for them this wouldn't have gotten the start. when it comes to actually getting the project done the hard decisions will approving contracts and construction budget comes to the mta and we've had great leadership from our board there's the ones that have driven those i'm not sure if oars other leaders here but thank them and pleased to welcome up the chair of the sfmta tom northern california we have 6 here and hope to have 7

shortly we've been on the front line and people have talked about this and we've licensed. my job sorry about that an important with an we were told i had no reason to know that but boring machines are named after great women and ms. chronically is represent by her naive and would you come forward so we can see you clapping thank you very much for being here. dr. changing margaret was the countries first chinese-american physician and a sincere arrogant mother this is an identical boring machine the big optional let it had a constricted tunnel

and representing her family is a family member come down and glad to be here on behalf of our board. (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. chair so one the great leaders the policing political leaders the folks behind me make a project happy someone got to do the project like all phases of the project the planning and design and construction is a collaborative system we've got a core team but the rest of the mta family from the dpw to the planning department to numerous other embodying bodies to community supporters particularly to the trades to labor and, of course, our private sights partners this is really a project o