90.3 WCPN ideastream®: Arts and Culture

Arts & Culture

Recent Coverage

“The Winter’s Tale”
Around Noon: Monday, April 17, 2006
Dee warms to “The Winter’s Tale” at Kent State University; previews the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra’s performance at Severance Hall; and talks with local slam poet guru Michael Salinger about the Cleveland National Youth Poetry Slam Team.

Cartoon dinosaurs of Phil Yeh, Live music by Hillbilly Idol
Around Noon: Friday, April 14, 2006
Today Around Noon’s invaded by the cartoon dinosaurs of Phil Yeh on view now at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History; plus live music by Hillbilly Idol from the Idea Center’s Key Bank Studio.

Applause 8,28
Applause: Thursday, April 13, 2006

“Three Chefs”
Around Noon: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Dee showcases another panel of the “Three Chefs” for the annual Easter/Passover call-in show. Featured chefs today are Sergio Abramoff of Sergios, James Majors from Club Isabella, and Matt Barnes of Saucy Bistro.

MOCA Cleveland,Upcoming season at Playhouse Square,WVIZ/PBS Auction.
Around Noon: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Dee enters the architecture competition for new MOCA Cleveland; previews the upcoming season at Playhouse Square; gets ready for the annual WVIZ/PBS Auction.

poet laureate of Cleveland Heights, Warren Zanes , Bobby Jackson
Around Noon: Monday, April 10, 2006
Dee introduces us to the new poet laureate of Cleveland Heights; welcomes back regular irregular Warren Zanes to explain his decision to leave the Rock Hall; and Bobby Jackson gets us “Boppin” at the Cleveland Play House.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Cleveland Museum of Natural History,Beachland Ballroom
Around Noon: Friday, April 7, 2006
Today Dee gets in step with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as the company gets ready to take the Playhouse Square stage; regular irregular Harvey Webster of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History gets us in the swing for spring; and Dee goes Galactic prior to the group’s performance at the Beachland Ballroom.

Applause 8,27
Applause: Thursday, April 6, 2006

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Funding

Production of Around Noon on 90.3 WCPN and Applause on WVIZ/PBS is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation
Kulas Foundation

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 and Applause.

OAC
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Series

Around Noon
Around Noon is WCPN's weekday exploration into the world of local and national culture. Around Noon airs weekdays on WCPN at 12:00 noon.

Applause
Applause takes a weekly look at the local and national culture scene on WVIZ/PBS.

Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come
This profile of the pop music superstar is told through his music and the stories of the people who knew him best, as listeners are taken on a tuneful journey that traces Cooke's amazing life and mysterious death. Premiered July 13, 2007

Backstage With...
Backstage With is a new series of dynamic interviews with masters in the performing arts, offering revealing insights and inspirational motivation into the creation of groundbreaking Broadway musicals. Presented by WVIZ/PBS ideastream® and PlayhouseSquare.

Jazz Tracks
Jazz Tracks seeks to explore our community, our nation and our world while keeping the jazz sensibility in mind. We show how the music has influenced our sense of fashion, our speech, and how it has, in some way, touched just about everything that makes up of our contemporary lifestyle.