Around Noon

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Star-Spangled Spectacular
Thursday, July 2
Today we preview the Cleveland Orchestra's annual Star-Spangled Spectacular concert happening tonight on Public Square. Dee Perry shares her interview with this year's conductor, Loras John Schissel along with a profile of the star soprano onstage - Angela Brown. And we get a preview of the pre-concert festivities with local jazz man Bill Ransom.

About Around Noon

Around Noon, ideastream’s weekday radio magazine, celebrates the visual and performing arts, explores cultural trends, and examines current events through an artistic lens. The show hosts a lively mix of regional, national, and international guests, and often invites listeners to interact with those guests in lively, thought-provoking discussions. Dee Perry hosts. Above: Dee with Apollo and the Five Muses at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Production of Around Noon on 90.3 WCPN is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
Kulas Foundation
The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust, Glenmede Trust Company, Trustee

United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Thank you to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

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