Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

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Well? What did you think of our new open? We're ringing in the new year with a new look and introducing some new ideas into one of the longest-running locally produced arts and culture show in the country - Applause. This year marks our 10th year of bringing you an Emmy-winning weekly series dedicated to the arts, but not wanting to rest on our laurels we felt it was time for a change. So, for the past several months we've taken a hard look at how we do things, and how to improve the show to better inform you and enhance your viewing pleasure. One of the more obvious ways, as you've just seen, was to change the show's open. Our new look was created in collaboration with a local video production company, Glazen Creative Studios, using a technique known as green screen. The green screen process involves computer graphics that allow the user to change the background to just about anything, and it's best explained by the experts.

The music of Chilean native Luca Mundaca is a beautiful take on the classic sounds of Bossa Nova. Luca came of age in Brazil, steeped in its rhythms and melodies, and it's through a not so simple twist of fate that she now calls Cleveland her second home... thanks to a little Ohio hospitality. Luca Mundaca joins us in the Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre at the Idea Center at Playhouse Square.

Photographer and CSU professor Masumi Hayashi's life came to a tragic end long before her time. In 2006, she, along with fellow artist John Jackson, were slain at a west side apartment in Cleveland after complaining to a neighbor about loud music. In memory of Masumi Hayashi, the Akron Art Museum, MOCA Cleveland, Spaces Gallery and Cleveland State University recently presented a retrospective of her work.

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Production of Applause on WVIZ/PBS is made possible by grants from:

The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation

United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

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