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, December 6, 2007

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We’ll meet a group of Cleveland Institute of Music who are crafting some classics of their own for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Since 2002, Clevelanders looking for a different take on the Christmas season have turned to this local boy for his special brand of music. Neil Zaza has long been a fixture on the Northeast Ohio music scene, for his blinding guitar solos and furious fret work. But when his popular rock band Zaza broke up, Neil decided to take a musical trip in a different direction. Today, that journey’s brought him to the stage of the Palace Theater, here in Playhouse Square, with his rock-and-roll renditions of caroling favorites. The fifth annual presentation of “Neil Zaza’s One Silent Night” happens Saturday, December 15th, and Neil joins us in our Idea Center studios for a preview.

The wide-eyed, rosy-cheeked children, the almost photo-realistic details, the luminous water colors... these are some of the elements found in a Norman Rockwell painting, but there is so much more in the nearly 4,000 images that Rockwell painted during his long career. For the next few months you have a chance to explore the traveling exhibit American Chronicles: the Art of Norman Rockwell on view now at the Akron Art Museum. We're joined by museum’s curatorial assistant Allison Tillinger-Schmidt.

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