
<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36257">Please feel free to forward this notice to any friends, family, colleagues, or students who may be interested in this upcoming performance of traditional Chinese music.<div class="" id="yiv4652765000yqtfd89576"><br></div></div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yqtfd17033"><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36257">****************************************</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36257"><br clear="none" class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41501"></div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36257">This <u class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41504">Thursday, December 31, 2015</u> (New Year's Eve), the <b class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_37988">Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble </b>克里夫蘭民族樂團 will perform a 90-minute-long set for the First Night Akron 2016 festival.</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36259"><br clear="none" class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36261"></div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36263">The performance will take place in the Doric Room, on the fourth floor of Greystone Hall, a majestic 98-year-old building located at 103 South High Street in downtown Akron, Ohio.</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36265"><br clear="none" class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36267"></div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36269">The ensemble's traditional instruments will include <i class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41515">dizi</i> and <i class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41517">xiao</i> (bamboo flutes), <i class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41519">sheng</i> (mouth organ), <i class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41521">erhu</i> (fiddle), <i class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41523">sihu</i> (4-stringed fiddle), <i class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41525">pipa</i> (pear-shaped lute), <i class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41527">yueqin</i> (moon lute), <i class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36977">zhongruan</i> (round-bodied lute), gongs, drums, and other percussion, and vocals.</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36271"><br clear="none" class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36273"></div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36275">The performance will also feature two special guests:</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36277"><br clear="none" class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36279"></div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36281">● Pipa/zhongruan soloist <b class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41536">Yang Jin</b> of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36283">and</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36285">● Vocalist <b class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_41540">Sandra Emmeline</b> (of the Akron-based band Sancat)</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36287"><br clear="none" class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36289"></div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36291">The program will include the following selections (with an audience sing-along for the finale):</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36293"><br clear="none" class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36295"></div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36297">● <span class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_37400">Radiant With Joy</span> (Xi Yang Yang, 喜洋洋)</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36299">● Liuyang River (Liuyang He, 浏阳河)</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36301">● Picking Tea and Chasing Butterflies (Cai Cha Pu Die, 采茶扑蝶)</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36303">● Pipa solo: Spring in the Tian Shan Mountains (Tian Shan Zhi Chun, 天山之春) - featuring Yang Jin, pipa</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36305">● Mongolian dance music: Uelzuur (Үелзүүр) and Chudraa (Чудраа)</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36307">● Sheng solo: Boat Song on Weishan Lake (Weishan Hu Chuan Ge, 微山湖船歌) - featuring Haochen Qin, sheng</div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_36309">● Paying Homage to the Son of Heaven (朝天子, Chao Tianzi) </div><div class="" id="yiv4652765000yui_3_16_0_1_1451150578475_3631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