genesis for other artist movement in many ways. george sam s was the trumpeter and anthony brown and other pioneers. united front was unique because it was the record label and were you supporting other locals to have their own label as well and pioneering as well. this marked the professional debut for many professions. as i mentioned frances wong and of course anthony brown and you led at another time support of younger african american musicians like 12-year-old who performed many many years ago with you as well. i was attracted to asian improvisational music because with different japanese instruments as well and filipino musicians using percussion as well and really a great time in the 80s. mark was the curator of that time. mark s vision that sustained the festival. it was his vision that sustained the festival and i think the movement, he deserves a lot of credit for sustaining that creativity and movement. he also booked the artist raised the money and produced all
as someone that i m so honored to get to know today. that s emerald ye. emerald is known for channel 4 is now the chair of the asian pacific fund here in san francisco. i don t know if you remember but supervisor tang interned for you in college. she has a masters degree from columbia university. she began her tv career as a reporter in honolulu and joined in 84 and then for cnn in atlanta. she served for 19 years. i m going to embarrass her with some of her journalism awards. she received 9 emmy s. an excellence awards for consumer action, 3 awards from radio and television news from the directors association, the press and television association, american psychiatric association and national association for children and alcoholics and a national award for best feature. with the asian pacific fund which i think is relevant for today s honor is a founder to establish and proof the well being of all asians in the district area and provide service and awarding grants to more th
for a long time. we couldn t do it without your support and thank you so much and for us to be acknowledged is a huge deal. we try to represent the heart and souls of people and to preserve it so it can be passed down to others. thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you and congratulations. i wanted to thank supervisor mar for doing this. i m setting up a new committee. i wanted to join supervisor mar and on the next election we ll get him to perform. legalities let s go to district 2. ladies and gentlemen, i have the great honor of introducing someone that supervisor mar just called out but for someone of my generation, we grew up watching her on television and she brought us the nightly news and someone that i have been honor today to get to know as someone that i m so honored to get to know today. that s emerald ye. emerald is known for channel 4 is now the chair of the asian pacific fund here in san francisco. i don t know if you remember but supervisor tang inter
and also the chinese traditional multi-read instrument and he s the only symphonic show composer in the world. mark premiered mermaid orchestral work in the symphony as well. he wrote in 2005 the man chill a project. he was the emmy award winner in 2009 for 52, a documentary about the vietnamese experience. mark iz odyssey and continued. mr. izu s cd threading time, it was release nd tokyo. it released the tokyo. included academy award and new score for silent masterpiece dragon painter. his theatre performed at the kennedy center, lincoln center and an festival and 2 in indy awards at the competition and an afcap award. he s the founding faculty member of stanford university of the arts. at this moment i would like to ask mark to make a couple of words. it s an honor to honor you as a district one resident and supervisor for the district. mark izu. thank you, i really appreciate your kind words. i have something for supervisor . kim. i go this is the most important jazz
the people that we are representing and nowadays. the way history is being written is through music and stories and images on the internet and artist have been doing that for a long time. i would like to acknowledge kerry schulman vment she s been representing people of color in this city for a long time. we couldn t do it without your support and thank you so much and for us to be acknowledged is a huge deal. we try to represent the heart and souls of people and to preserve it so it can be passed down to others. thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you and congratulations. i wanted to thank supervisor mar for doing this. i m setting up a new committee. i wanted to join supervisor mar and on the next election we ll get him to perform. legalities let s go to district 2. ladies and gentlemen, i have the great honor of introducing someone that supervisor mar just called out but for someone of my generation, we grew up watching her on television and she brought us the nigh