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Recent Coverage

Tom Hanks, Return to the Moon at the Great Lakes Science Center and The Print Club of Cleveland
Applause: Thursday, October 15, 2009
You loved him in Forrest Gump! You cried for him in Saving Private Ryan! And you cheered for him in Apollo 13. On the next Applause we’ll sit down with one of the biggest names in Hollywood, Tom Hanks. And the countdown has begun to return man to the moon. Coming up we’ll explore the next generation of NASA spacecrafts. Plus we’ll take a journey through an IMPRESSIVE collection of prints, courtesy of the Cleveland Print Club.

Franz Welser-Möst
Around Noon: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Dee Perry welcomes back the music director for The Cleveland Orchestra - Franz Welser-Möst - who talks about the orchestra's decision to foster a different identity with new audiences. He also shares his excitement for the Community Music Initiative with the Cleveland Public Schools. This weekend's concert of Brahms' A German Requiem gets a preview as does the upcoming opera production of Mozart's Così fan tutte ,

Tom Hanks
Around Noon: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Oscar-winning actor and former Great Lakes Theater Festival company member Tom Hanks joins NPR's Scott Simon in Idea Center® at PlayhouseSquare for discussion about his acclaimed career in such films as Splash, Philadelphia and Saving Private Ryan. Photo Greg Gorman

Young Frankenstein, The Laramie Project and Garrison Elliott
Around Noon: Monday, October 12, 2009
Dee Perry unearths the Broadway comedy Young Frankenstein with one of the musicals creators, prior to opening night at PlayhouseSquare. Plus we hear from award-winning playwright and director Moises Kaufman who returns to The Laramie Project 10 years later with staged reading for Tri-C. And former Clevelander Garrison Elliott is bringing his swinging sound to Nighttown, as he shares a musical preview.

Tom Hanks Talks About His Career
Regional News Stories: Monday, October 12, 2009
Oscar-winning actor and former Great Lakes Theater Festival company member Tom Hanks joins NPR's Scott Simon at the Idea Center® at PlayhouseSquare for discussion about his acclaimed career in such films as Splash, Philadelphia and Saving Private Ryan.

Michael Stanley and Alex Bevan
Around Noon: Friday, October 9, 2009
Dee Perry welcomes two of Cleveland's favorite musical sons, as local legends Michael Stanley and Alex Bevan preview their first-ever concert together, at the Beachland Ballroom, presented by Roots of American Music.

Ashtabula Covered Bridges, The Bridge Project, Filmmaker Alexander Boxerbaum and Don Prusha
Applause: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Bridges conjure up many things: romance, troubled waters, fear of heights, transportation, and even waste - with a bridge to nowhere. Coming up on the next Applause we’ll take a toll of some of the beautiful bridges in our area, visit the covered bridge capital of Ohio, plus we’ll meet a man who got the bridge of his dreams by building it himself…all this and more on the next round of Applause.

CMA Fine Print Fair, Les Délices and Joseph Sestito
Around Noon: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Dee Perry frames a conversation about The Cleveland Museum of Art's 25th annual Fine Print Fair, Cleveland’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition of fine prints, happening this weekend at Corporate College. Plus, a harpsichord is happening in the Key Bank studio as the new baroque ensemble Les Délices performs a preview of their upcoming concerts at The William Busta Gallery and Music at the Western Reserve. Also we overcome writer's block with the help of Joseph Sestito, author of Write for Your Lives: Inspire Your Creative Writing with Buddhist Wisdom.

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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
Kulas 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.