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Ohio Dance Theatre, Brazilian Girls, Annie Fullard-violinist for the Cleveland Institute of Music
Around Noon: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Today Dee does battle with the Mouse King and waltzes with the Sugar Plum Fairy as the Ohio Dance Theatre prepares to present the classic Nutcracker Ballet; previews the Brazilian Girls’ gig at the Grog Shop; and gets classical with Annie Fullard, violinist for the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Quartet-in-Residence, the Cavani String Quartet, on the eve of CIM’s annual Chamber Music Festival.
Jim Foster of The City Club of Cleveland
Around Noon: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Jim Goldurs sits in for Dee and tries to avoid a series of unfortunate events with reclusive author Lemony Snicket; and welcomes Jim Foster of The City Club of Cleveland to talk about the Club’s history and remember some funny (and maybe not-so-funny) things that have happened as we welcome your phone calls.
Local poets Michael Salinger and Sara Holbrook, photographer Catherine Opie
Around Noon: Monday, November 27, 2006
Dee studies the rules of verse with local poets Michael Salinger and Sara Holbrook, co-authors of Outspoken!: How to Improve Writing and Speaking Skills Through Poetry Performance; focuses on photographer Catherine Opie and her exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, In and Around Home; and chats with regular irregular John Ewing about the latest offerings at the Cleveland Cinematheque.
Trumpet virtuoso Sean Jones
Around Noon: Friday, November 24, 2006
Bobby Jackson spends the hour with young trumpet virtuoso Sean Jones, discussing Jones’s latest Mack Avenue Records date Roots and his meteoric rise up the jazz hierarchy, taking the first trumpet seat with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
American Public Media brings you Giving Thanks
Around Noon: Thursday, November 23, 2006
Dee takes the holiday off as American Public Media brings you Giving Thanks. Host John Birge brings classical music and stories together in a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday. Guests include best-selling author and humorist Anne Lamott, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and environmentalist Gary Snyder and journalist Bill Moyers.
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Funding
Production of Around Noon on 90.3 WCPN and Applause on WVIZ/PBS is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.
Thank you to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon and Applause.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
Series
Around Noon
Around Noon is WCPN's weekday exploration into the world of local and national culture. Around Noon airs weekdays on WCPN at 12:00 noon.
Applause
Applause takes a weekly look at the local and national culture scene on WVIZ/PBS.
Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come
This profile of the pop music superstar is told through his music and the stories of the people who knew him best, as listeners are taken on a tuneful journey that traces Cooke's amazing life and mysterious death. Premiered July 13, 2007
Backstage With...
Backstage With is a new series of dynamic interviews with masters in the performing arts, offering revealing insights and inspirational motivation into the creation of groundbreaking Broadway musicals. Presented by WVIZ/PBS ideastream® and PlayhouseSquare.
Jazz Tracks
Jazz Tracks seeks to explore our community, our nation and our world while keeping the jazz sensibility in mind. We show how the music has influenced our sense of fashion, our speech, and how it has, in some way, touched just about everything that makes up of our contemporary lifestyle.
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