<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_32" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2833" style="font-size: 10pt;">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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Thurs., Feb. 6</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sat., Feb. 8</span>, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sun., Feb. 9</span>, 2014 at the public libraries in Medina, <span id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_35">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).<br></span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_37" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2720" style="font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: transparent;"><br><span id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_35"></span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_40" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2721" style="font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: transparent;"><span id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_35">*************************</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_44" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2722" style="font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: transparent;"><br><span id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_35"></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color:
transparent;"><span id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_35"><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble</span><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">克里夫蘭民族樂團</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">presents</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPRING IN THE EAST ~ A Concert for the Chinese New Year</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47"
class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">新年音樂會《東方之春》</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Three performances</span>:</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">1) 7:00 p.m., Thursday, February 6, 2014</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color:
transparent;">Community Room, <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">Medina Library</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">210 South Broadway Street </div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Medina, Ohio</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">Free and open to the public</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">More information:</span><br></div><div
id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/670835069636025/">https://www.facebook.com/events/670835069636025/</a><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">2) 2:00 p.m., Saturday, February 8, 2014</span><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">Sycamore Room, <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><span>Brunswick Library</span></span></div><div
id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">3649 Center Road </div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brunswick, Ohio</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">Free and open to the public</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">More information:</span><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/209889632532457/">https://www.facebook.com/events/209889632532457/</a><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">3) 2:00 p.m., Sunday, February 9, 2014 (featuring a smaller ensemble of four members)</span><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">Main Library</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">Lorain Public Library System</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47"
class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">351 West Sixth Street</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lorain, Ohio</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">Free and open to the public</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">More information:</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/562963770453774/">https://www.facebook.com/events/562963770453774/</a><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47"
class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">==============</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">More about the programs:</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47"
class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">Celebrate the Chinese New Year (the Year of the Horse) in <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">style with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble</span>, Northeast </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">Ohio's traditional Chinese orchestra.</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">The ensemble will present a program of graceful and festive <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">music -- including several pieces about horses -- played on an </span><span style="background-color:
transparent; font-size: 10pt;">assortment of traditional Chinese musical instruments including </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">bamboo flutes, mouth organs, fiddles, lutes, and percussion. </span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">Audience members will be invited for a hands-on opportunity to <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">try the drums, gongs, and cymbals and join the ensemble for a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">few numbers. Interspersed between the pieces will be readings </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">of several colorful
stories and poems about horses from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">Chinese history.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">Tentative program:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;"><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">● Radiant With Joy (Xi Yang Yang, 喜洋洋)</span><br></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Fish at the Bottom (Shui Di Yu, 水低鱼)</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723"
style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Purple Bamboo Melody (Zi Zhu Diao, 紫竹调)</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Lady Meng Jiang (Meng Jiang Nü, 孟姜女)</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Little Rainbow Dress (Xiao Ni Chang, 小霓裳)</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Testing Horses in the Suburbs in the Spring (Chun Jiao Shi <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">Ma, 春郊试马)</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723"
style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Horse Racing (Sai Ma, 赛马) - featuring Jiaqi Zheng, <span style="font-style: italic;">erhu</span></div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Horse-Herding Mountain Song (Fang Ma Shan Ge, 访马山歌)</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Picking Flowers (Cai Hua, 采花)</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;">● Rising Higher Step By Step (Bu Bu Gao, 步步高)</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="font-size: 10pt; background-color:
transparent;">● Old Six Beats (Lao Liu Ban, 老六板)</div><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;"><div id="yiv6108797988yui_3_13_0_ym1_16_1391621001149_47" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1391643912439_2723" style="background-color: transparent;">● Festival Percussion (Huanqing Luogu, 欢庆锣鼓)</div></div></span></div></div></span></div></div></body></html>