[NEohioPAL] Chinese music 2/6, 2/8, 2/9 @ Medina, Brunswick, Lorain

[David Badagnani]

There will be three free performances of traditional Chinese music, storytelling, poems, and images in honor of the Year of the Horse, taking place this Thurs., Feb. 6, Sat., Feb. 8, and Sun., Feb. 9, 2014 at the public libraries in Medina, Brunswick, and Lorain, Ohio.  Please feel free to forward this notice to any friends, family, students, or colleagues who may be interested in Chinese music or culture (especially if they live in or near Medina or Lorain County).


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Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble

克里夫蘭民族樂團
presents
SPRING IN THE EAST ~ A Concert for the Chinese New Year
新年音樂會《東方之春》

Three performances:

1) 7:00 p.m., Thursday, February 6, 2014
Community Room, Medina Library
210 South Broadway Street 
Medina, Ohio
Free and open to the public
More information:

https://www.facebook.com/events/670835069636025/


2) 2:00 p.m., Saturday, February 8, 2014

Sycamore Room, Brunswick Library
3649 Center Road 
Brunswick, Ohio
Free and open to the public
More information:

https://www.facebook.com/events/209889632532457/


3) 2:00 p.m., Sunday, February 9, 2014 (featuring a smaller ensemble of four members)

Main Library
Lorain Public Library System
351 West Sixth Street
Lorain, Ohio
Free and open to the public
More information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/562963770453774/


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More about the programs:

Celebrate the Chinese New Year (the Year of the Horse) in style with the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble, Northeast Ohio's traditional Chinese orchestra.

The ensemble will present a program of graceful and festive music -- including several pieces about horses -- played on an assortment of traditional Chinese musical instruments including bamboo flutes, mouth organs, fiddles, lutes, and percussion. 

Audience members will be invited for a hands-on opportunity to try the drums, gongs, and cymbals and join the ensemble for a few numbers. Interspersed between the pieces will be readings of several colorful stories and poems about horses from Chinese history.

Tentative program:
● Radiant With Joy (Xi Yang Yang, 喜洋洋)

● Fish at the Bottom (Shui Di Yu, 水低鱼)
● Purple Bamboo Melody (Zi Zhu Diao, 紫竹调)
● Lady Meng Jiang (Meng Jiang Nü, 孟姜女)
● Little Rainbow Dress (Xiao Ni Chang, 小霓裳)
● Testing Horses in the Suburbs in the Spring (Chun Jiao Shi Ma, 春郊试马)
● Horse Racing (Sai Ma, 赛马) - featuring Jiaqi Zheng, erhu
● Horse-Herding Mountain Song (Fang Ma Shan Ge, 访马山歌)
● Picking Flowers (Cai Hua, 采花)
● Rising Higher Step By Step (Bu Bu Gao, 步步高)
● Old Six Beats (Lao Liu Ban, 老六板)
● Festival Percussion (Huanqing Luogu, 欢庆锣鼓)
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