<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427264" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427260" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div>Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble<br></div></span></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427270" style="font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; ">presents</span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427282"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427278" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of the Dragon: A Concert of Traditional Chinese Music</font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427288"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427284" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif;">2 p.m., Saturday, August 11, 2012</font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427294"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427296" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Parma Heights Branch, Cuyahoga County Public Library</div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">6206 Pearl Road (in Greenbrier Commons, next to the fire station)<br></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Parma Heights, Ohio</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Free; registration required (see below for registration information)<br></div></font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427392"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427394" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427396"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427398" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Join the Cleveland Chinese Music
Ensemble as they perform a selection of traditional Chinese melodies, including several pieces about dragons, in honor of the current Year of the Dragon.</font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427400"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427402" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427404"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427406" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The ensemble's instruments include <span style="font-style: italic; ">dizi</span> and <span style="font-style: italic; ">xiao</span> (bamboo flutes), <span style="font-style: italic; ">suona</span> (oboe), <span style="font-style: italic; ">sheng </span>(mouth organ), <span style="font-style: italic; ">gaohu</span>, <span style="font-style: italic; ">zhonghu, </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;
">yehu</span> (2-stringed fiddles), <span style="font-style: italic; ">pipa</span> (pear-shaped lute), <span style="font-style: italic; ">yueqin</span> (moon lute), gongs, drums, and other percussion instruments.</font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427426"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427428" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427430"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427432" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The event is free, but prior registration is required.</font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427434"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427436" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427354"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427350" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;">More information and registration information:</font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427354"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427350" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cuyahoga.lib.oh.us/EventDetail.aspx?EventInstanceID=69371">http://www.cuyahoga.lib.oh.us/EventDetail.aspx?EventInstanceID=69371</a><br></font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427346"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427335"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427330" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Facebook event page:</font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427361"><font class="yui_3_2_0_44_1344381589427358" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a
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