<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra presents: </b></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><i><font size="4">"Rhapsody in Blue" at 100 – More Experiments in Modern Music<br></font></i></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a8b0968a-7fff-b1aa-9235-7c07312a51a8"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join us for an evening of live music, original compositions, and the celebration of George Gershwin’s masterpiece, featuring Jackie Warren on the keys.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d0ec1645-7fff-08de-a981-72b916f04b2e"><br></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You’ll hear new works by members of the CJO and the Cleveland Composers Guild, and Carl Topilow will conduct “Rhapsody in Blue.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Friday, March 15th, 7:30 p.m.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Maltz Performing Arts Center, Cleveland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Tickets: <a href="https://bit.ly/CJORhapsody">https://bit.ly/CJORhapsody</a></span></p><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Saturday, March 16th, 8 p.m.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">BLU Jazz+, Akron</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Tickets: <a href="https://bit.ly/CJORhapsodyBLU">https://bit.ly/CJORhapsodyBLU</a></span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Theresa Lesh</font><div><font face="georgia, serif">Managing Director, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://clevelandjazz.org" target="_blank">clevelandjazz.org</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>