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, February 7, 2008

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In 1997, a group of young British artists, dubbed the YBAs, solidified their careers in an exhibit which created a sensation in the world of art. One of the talented artists who exhibited in that landmark exhibit was photographer and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood, and the first major museum exhibit of her works in the U.S. has just arrived with at its first stop -- MOCA Cleveland.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. But with all due respect to F. Scott, he never met Bea Mitchell! In the February edition of Northern Ohio Live magazine, artist and writer Doug Utter introduces us all to this multi-talented woman who became a successful fashion model, raised a family, seriously studied classical music, and then became a respected visual artist. By our count, Bea's not only lived a second act, she's well into the third.

Music is powerful stuff! That's the belief of thousands of talented teens from across the country who prove the power of classical music each week on the NPR program From the Top. Airing locally on WCLV 104.9 FM, From the Top travels the 50 states to discover and spotlight some of our nation's best and brightest teenage musicians. Recently, host Christopher O'Riley and the rest of the show's crew came to Northeast Ohio to record their classical variety program inside the Cleveland Institute of Music's new Mixon Hall. We sent our ideastream cameras out to capture what it's like to get From the Top... to the stage!

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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.