Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College

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[00:00:02] Ok am Wilma Pang and I teach at City College. I teach music. I teach in music like music appreciation and theory. That’s my basic courses. But I have been in the community the Chinese community for orgy over 30 years and I’m quite active in the Chinese community organizing programs particularly musicians to perform on streets of Chinatown. Yes. I organized them to play there last year and during the stars three years ago and Chinatown was abandoned.

[00:00:52] What happened was I personally engage in pay for the Lion dances to perform every every evening to drum up people to come back to Chinatown.

[00:01:05] At the same time I organized the musicians to perform in a particular spot and the musicians they chose to play in front of the Golden Dragon because they liked that spot at all also the owner or the manager of the Golden Dragon and they really you know you really like them to be there. Tim Lee was the manager of the Golden Dragon so I know the music very well and we do perform also last year in 2004. We perform at City College. Read more...

Angelo Pizarro, Guitarist and Composer

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A: I’m Angelo Pizzarro. Full name is Nichasho Angelo Velasco Pizarro. And being surrounded by music when I was young I developed…kind of distorting…

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I’m Angelo Velasco Pizzrro and I started at a very young age, surrounded by music. Music all over the house, my cousins, my brothers all playing instruments. And my cousin got me enrolled in a junior high school and that school they didn’t have saxophone. I was going to play sax like my father. But the principal said they had a guitar class. So I said okay. My brother played the guitar by ear, without sheet music. So at the high school they provided instruments and they gave each student a guitar classical instrument. That’s how I got started, summer of 70… Read more...