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, November 29, 2007

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On the surface, the current exhibition of Diana Cooper at the Museum of Contemporary Art may seem a bit chaotic. But beneath it all there's a very pragmatic approach to her work that seems to defy logic.

It doesn't take much to name one of his tunes! For over four decades, award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch has written some of the most memorable scores for the big screen and Broadway. Recently, Marvin Hamlisch paid a visit to the Westfield Insurance Studio Theater at the Idea Center at Playhouse Square as part of the joint educational program Master Moments. Hamlisch was joined by NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon who interviewed him in front of an audience of students and teachers about his life in music.

Thanks to the internet access to art is just a mouse click away! Chances are you may have surfed your way over one of the growing number of the internet art web sites that's popping up on the net. Here's a look at the work of one artists that caught the attention of one of our ideastream colleagues Mark Rosenberger.

If "Creativity" and "Practicality" were the names of two streets, they'd probably never cross. For most of his life, John Balazs of Ravenna has found the winding path of Creativity to be the more interesting route. Of course, as an industrial design student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, he learned to apply imaginative solutions to practical problems. And he passed that mindset on to his students at Kent State University. But now, in retirement, he's quite happy to use his skills in the pursuit of whimsy, inspiration and wonder. ideastream's David C. Barnett produced a portrait of a man and his muse.

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