[NEohioPAL] Music at Main: Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble 5/12

[Michael Dalby]

Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department



presents

"A Celebration of Spring"

featuring

Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble

and

Xue "Snow" Yu, voice



with special guests

Steven Greenman, violin

Shuai Wang, piano

Guangsheng Wang, Chinese painting and calligraphy





2:00 p.m., Saturday, May 12, 2012

Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium

Cleveland Public Library Main Library

325 Superior Avenue Northeast

Cleveland, Ohio

Free





East meets West when the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble is joined by
violinist Steven Greenman and pianist Shuai Wang for a diverse program of
Chinese classical and folk music, played on both traditional and Western
instruments.  The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of
the Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department's monthly Music at Main
series.  It will take place in the Cleveland Public Library's beautiful
Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium.





The ensemble's instruments include dizi and xiao (bamboo flutes), sheng
(mouth organ), pipa (pear-shaped lute), guzheng (21-string zither), gongs,
drums, and cymbals.  For a rare treat, Greenman and Wang will present a
rendition of the theme to the "Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto," which is
beloved as the most famous Chinese composition for violin.  The classically
trained vocalist Xue "Snow" Yu of Qingdao, Shandong, China will join the
ensemble for several selections, and, for a rousing finale, all
participants will join together in a rousing performance of the Shanxi
piece "Zui Gu" (Drunk Drum), for Chinese percussion and piano.





The event will also feature a showing of traditional watercolors by the
distinguished Chinese painter Mr. Guangsheng Wang. Wang, who taught erhu
(Chinese fiddle) for 25 years at the Tianjin Conservatory, settled last
year in Lakewood, Ohio, near his daughter, Shuai Wang. See some of Mr.
Wang's amazing and magical paintings here:

https://plus.google.com/photos/110084156877541067982/albums/5512893484237231345?banner=pwa





Prior to the concert, Mr. Wang will also demonstrate the art of Chinese
ink-and-brush calligraphy, writing audience members' names upon request.





Finally, also prior to the concert Mr. Wang's wife, Judy, will serve
handmade traditional Chinese jiaozi dumplings, with pork and vegetable
fillings, for no charge.





The painting and calligraphy demonstration, and the serving of the
dumplings, will take place from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m., and the concert itself
will be from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.





More information:



http://www.cpl.org/EventsClasses/MusicatMain.aspx



https://www.facebook.com/events/293028264086783/
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