<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">presents</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">THE HUNDRED FLOWERS OF SPRING</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">《百花行》</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1365349918_0">3 p.m., Sunday, April 14, 2013</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">United Methodist Church of Macedonia</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">1280 East Aurora Road (S.R. 82)</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Macedonia,
Ohio</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">No admission fee; a free-will offering will be taken</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble</span>, Northeast Ohio's traditional Chinese orchestra, presents a new program of Chinese music based on the themes of springtime and flowers.</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">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;">erhu </span>(fiddle), <span style="font-style: italic;">gaohu</span> (Cantonese fiddle), <span style="font-style: italic;">yehu</span> (coconut fiddle), <span style="font-style: italic;">dahu</span> (bass fiddle), <span style="font-style: italic;">pipa</span> (pear-shaped lute), <span style="font-style: italic;">yueqin </span>(moon lute), <span style="font-style: italic;">guzheng</span> (zither), drums, gongs, and other percussion.</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">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).</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div
style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Following the performance, the audience will be invited to sample several varieties of fine Chinese tea.</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">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.</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Event page:</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/510476045665481/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;">https://www.facebook.com/events/510476045665481/</a><br></span></div><div style="font-size:
16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">More information:</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://umcm.org/cleveland-chinese-music-ensemble-performing-at-umcm/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1365349918_1">http://umcm.org/cleveland-chinese-music-ensemble-performing-at-umcm/</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://umcm.org/events/sanctuary-festival-chinese-music-ensemble/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1365349918_2">http://umcm.org/events/sanctuary-festival-chinese-music-ensemble/</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size:
13px;">Directions:</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://umcm.org/articles/how-to-find-us/" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1365349918_3">http://umcm.org/articles/how-to-find-us/</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Program:</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● Drinking Uproariously at the Hundred Flowers Pavilion (Bai Hua Ting Nao Jiu, 百花亭闹酒)</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● Picking Flowers (Cai Hua, 采花)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● Flowers and Youth (Hua'er Yu Shaonian,
花儿与少年)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● Jasmine Flower (Molihua, 茉莉花)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● Plum Blossoms in Snow (Xue Mei, 雪梅)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● Lotus Emerging from the Water (Chu Shui Lian, 出水莲)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● Chrysanthemum Terrace (Ju Hua Tai, 菊花台)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● Supreme Fragrance in the World - Baosui Orchids (Tianxia Di Yi Xiang - Baosui Lan, 天下第一香 ~ 报岁兰)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● In August the Osmanthus Flowers Bloom Everywhere (Ba Yue Gui Hua Bian Di Kai, 八月桂花遍地开)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size:
13px;">● Send Me a Rose (Song Wo Yi Zhi Meigui Hua, 送我一支玫瑰花)</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">● The Flowers are Beautiful, The Moon is Round (Hua Hao Yue Yuan, 花好月圆)</span></div></div></body></html>