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, October 16, 2008

Join us for a performance from three Lords of the Low End - bassists, Stanley Clark, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten, also known as SMV. They were in town recently for a concert at Cain Park, and they stopped by our ideastream studios for a pre-concert jam session. But, along with performance dates, there's another magnet that draws these world class artists to Northeast Ohio - their Cleveland-based recording label, Heads Up International. We'll also introduce you to the musical mastermind behind Heads Up, founder and president, Dave Love, which may have the most eclectic artist roster of any record label today.

After a choreographer passes away, their legacy lives on through the graceful steps of dance. Here in PlayhouseSquare, such a legacy is alive and well thanks to Cleveland's Repertory Company - Verb Ballets. This week they debut a new piece for the troupe - Vespers - by the late Alvin Ailey dancer and choreographer, Ulysses Dove. Earlier this year, the dancers of Verb Ballets rehearsed this beautiful, and extremely challenging piece, in the Idea Center™'s Gund Dance Studio.

In ancient Greece, "The Golden Age" was what they called the time when mankind was imagined to be pure and immortal. That time may never have really existed, but it was an ideal that gave comfort to people. On now at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood is evidence of a somewhat more recent Golden Age, a time when heroes were created out of the imaginations of some very special artists. The museum's director, Judy Feniger, joins us to talk about the Maltz Museum exhibit Zap!Pow!Bam!: The Superhero.

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