[NEohioPAL] Sun., 4/14 Chinese concert in Macedonia

[David Badagnani]

Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble

presents
THE HUNDRED FLOWERS OF SPRING
《百花行》
3 p.m., Sunday, April 14, 2013
United Methodist Church of Macedonia
1280 East Aurora Road (S.R. 82)
Macedonia, Ohio
No admission fee; a free-will offering will be taken

The Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble, Northeast Ohio's traditional Chinese orchestra, presents a new program of Chinese music based on the themes of springtime and flowers.

The ensemble's instruments include dizi and xiao (bamboo flutes), suona (oboe), sheng (mouth organ), erhu (fiddle), gaohu (Cantonese fiddle), yehu (coconut fiddle), dahu (bass fiddle), pipa (pear-shaped lute), yueqin (moon lute), guzheng (zither), drums, gongs, and other percussion.

The program will also feature a reading (in Chinese as well as English translation) of a Tang Dynasty poem by Liu Yuxi, entitled "Song of the Hundred Flowers" (百花行).

Following the performance, the audience will be invited to sample several varieties of fine Chinese tea.

This performance is part of the tenth season of the United Methodist Church of Macedonia's Sanctuary Festival Series. For more information, call the church office at (330) 467-3169.

Event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/510476045665481/


More information:
http://umcm.org/cleveland-chinese-music-ensemble-performing-at-umcm/
http://umcm.org/events/sanctuary-festival-chinese-music-ensemble/

Directions:
http://umcm.org/articles/how-to-find-us/

Program:

● Drinking Uproariously at the Hundred Flowers Pavilion (Bai Hua Ting Nao Jiu, 百花亭闹酒)
● Picking Flowers (Cai Hua, 采花)

● Flowers and Youth (Hua'er Yu Shaonian, 花儿与少年)

● Jasmine Flower (Molihua, 茉莉花)

● Plum Blossoms in Snow (Xue Mei, 雪梅)

● Lotus Emerging from the Water (Chu Shui Lian, 出水莲)

● Chrysanthemum Terrace (Ju Hua Tai, 菊花台)

● Supreme Fragrance in the World - Baosui Orchids (Tianxia Di Yi Xiang - Baosui Lan, 天下第一香 ~ 报岁兰)

● In August the Osmanthus Flowers Bloom Everywhere (Ba Yue Gui Hua Bian Di Kai, 八月桂花遍地开)

● Send Me a Rose (Song Wo Yi Zhi Meigui Hua, 送我一支玫瑰花)

● The Flowers are Beautiful, The Moon is Round (Hua Hao Yue Yuan, 花好月圆)
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