WVIZ/PBS ideastream®: Arts and Culture

Recent Coverage

Ariadne auf Naxos, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Paul Brown
Around Noon: Monday, February 22, 2010
Dan Polletta spotlights the young stars of The Cleveland Institute Music's opera department production of Richard Strauss's classic Ariadne auf Naxos. Plus we share an archive interview with Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner for fiction 2007 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as we preview the Cuyahoga County Public Library's monthly Anisfield-Wolf Book Club featuring Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Plus ideastream's® Eric Wellman shows us another side of NPR newsman Paul Brown, prior to his appearance at Lake Erie College.

Measha Brueggergosman
Around Noon: Friday, February 19, 2010
Dee Perry welcomes back acclaimed Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman hot off her appearance at the Vancouver Olympics opening ceremonies, as she gets ready for her performance this weekend with The Cleveland Orchestra.

Show 1008
State of Ohio: Friday, February 19, 2010
There’s a striking new addition to the historic and powerful works of art at the Statehouse. It’s a portrait of Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the African American general in the US Air Force. General Davis was from Ohio, and was one of the original members of a trailblazing group that helped bring integration to the military. The Tuskegee Airmen were launched in World War II, and were the first African Americans to fly combat aircraft. The fighter group was awarded 100 distinguished flying crosses and eventually the Congressional Gold Medal. A handful of Ohio Tuskegee Airmen, including Hilton Carter and Robert Peeples, came out in the snow to celebrate the portrait of General Davis, painted by Paul Tepper from the Columbus College of Art and Design.

The Making of an MVP, Lebron James, artist Gary Thomas and Surfing the Great Lakes
Applause: Thursday, February 18, 2010
On the next Applause we look at the Making of an MVP – Lebron James And we meet the man who’s painted his way into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Plus we meet a group of surfers tackling the Great Lakes in the dead of winter.

Zig Jackson, Corrie Slawson and Michael Medcalf
Around Noon: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Dee Perry focuses on the photography of Native-American artist Zig Jackson whose images are on view at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Plus, local artist Corrie Slawson explains how she is redeveloping vacant lots in Cleveland through her art for Spaces Gallery. And acclaimed local choreographer Michael Medcalf pays tribute to his late mother with his new dance work onstage at Cleveland Public Theater.

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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.