Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-Theater.
Newscopy: "HOY FUNG ORCHESTRA--Few Caucasians understand their music.".
Newscopy: "The first Chinese opera company came to San Francisco in the early 1850's, but it didn't capture the town. Wrote one music critic. 'They call this music? I can only describe it as the blended noises of a man mending pots, another filing a saw, another hammering boards, another beating a gong and two boys trying to tune fiddles.' In fact, San Francisco refused to accept Chinese music as anything but a meaningless accumulation of noise until the late '90's, when the pianist, Paderewski came for a visit...".