WVIZ/PBS ideastream®: Arts and Culture

Recent Coverage

Lonnie Brooks
Around Noon: Friday, November 13, 2009
Dee Perry welcomes Louisiana bluesman Lonnie Brooks to share stories about his long career singing the blues on Bourbon Street and his musical days in Chicago working with the likes of Muddy Waters and Sam Cooke, as we preview his performance tonight at The Beachland Ballroom.

Joe O’Sickey, Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889, Sneaker Artist, Van Monroe
Applause: Thursday, November 12, 2009
On Applause we’ll frame the work of an old master - the Father of Modern Art, Paul Gauguin. Plus we’ll explore the work of modern day master, Joe O’Sickey, considered the last GREAT Cleveland Art School painters. And we’ll meet a young gun who’s mastered an inventive new way of expressing himself that’s caught the eye of President Obama…all this and more on the next round of Applause.

Doctor Atomic, CAC Executive Director and Almeda Trio
Around Noon: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Dee Perry talks with acclaimed American conductor David Robertson who leads The Cleveland Orchestra this week in John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony. Plus Rick Jackson introduces us to the new executive director for Cuyahoga Arts and Culture - Karen Gahl-Mills. And we take you to the Key Bank studio for a live performance by The Cleveland Music School Settlement's resident troupe The Almeda Trio.

Sesame Street 40th, Loung Ung and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Around Noon: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Today Eric Wellman talks with some of the furry stars of PBS Kids Sesame Street celebrating it's 40th anniversary. And Dee Perry shares her conversation with local writer Loung Ung who tells the story of Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind prior to her speaking engagement for the Cleveland Public Library's Writers and Readers Series. Plus, we introduce you to the musical merry makers - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros prior to their performance for the Kent State Folk Festival.

Sesame Street Turns 40
Regional News Stories: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Sesame Street turns 40 this week. The show debuted in 1969 with what at the time was a radical idea -- that television could be used to educate children. The show has made some tweaks over the years in order to stay up to date with the way children watch TV. But as ideastream®'s Eric Wellman found out, after 40 years, Oscar is still grouchy, Big Bird is still the tallest bird around, and Sesame Street continues to capture the imagination of children. We pay a visit to 123 Sesame Street.

CAC Tabs New Executive Director
Regional News Stories: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The board of trustees of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture today completed a nine-month search for its new Executive Director. ideastream's Rick Jackson reports.

Nine by Fellini, Yellowman and The Way We Get By
Around Noon: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dee Perry welcomes back regular irregular guest John Ewing from the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque to roll the projectors on his cinematic tribute to Federico Fellini - Nine by Fellini. Plus, we raise the curtain on the critically-acclaimed Karamu production of Yellowman. And Dee shares her conversation with the filmmakers behind the acclaimed documentary The Way We Get By which gets it broadcast premiere on WVIZ / PBS tomorrow night.

American Music Master: Janis Joplin
Around Noon: Monday, November 9, 2009
Dee Perry shines the spotlight on the life and music of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer - Janis Joplin - who's the chosen artist for this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Case Western Reserve University American Music Masters Series. Joining Dee are Rock Hall education VP Lauren Onkey, CWRU music department chair Mary Davis, and Los Angeles Times pop music critic Ann Powers. Plus musicians from Roots of American Music perform in our Westfield Insurance Studio Theater in front of a live studio audience.

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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.