New Jersey jazz man John Pizzarelli
Posted Tuesday, February 28
Gullah tradition,Van Cliburn winner Jon Nakamatsu and Halim El Dabh
Posted Monday, February 27
Kronos Quartet and The Ohio Players and, Bobby Sanabria
Posted Friday, February 24
Garth Fagan, State of the City address
Posted Thursday, February 23
Peggy Kwong-Gordon,final music director candidate,funky fretwork of Bootsy Collins
Posted Wednesday, February 22
City Music Cleveland, Western Reserve Historical Society, Vusi Mahlasela
Posted Tuesday, February 21
letters between Presidents and another music director candidate
Posted Monday, February 20
“Inside Out” and “Intimate Apparel”
Posted Friday, February 17
“Beauty and Sustainability” and Bubblegum Books
Posted Thursday, February 16
Lilian Tyrrell and Akron Symphony and Gets funky with Nile Rodgers
Posted Wednesday, February 15
Nina Domingue and The one-woman show “Mo Pas Connin or Torment”
Posted Tuesday, February 14
Call-in show dedicated to romantic dining ideas.
Posted Monday, February 13
“The Distance Between Us” and shares some laughs with comic Chelsea Handler
Posted Friday, February 10
Today Dee travels The Distance Between Us with foreign correspondent turned novelist Masha Hamilton.
Christine Brandes and Brian Holley of the Cleveland Botanical Garden
Posted Thursday, February 9
Grammy’s and unky drumming of Clyde Stubblefield
Posted Wednesday, February 8
Lord of the Rings and Romeo and Juliette and Sorrows and Romances
Posted Tuesday, February 7
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till and The comedy of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
Posted Monday, February 6
“Outside the Box” at the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron
Posted Friday, February 3
Oberlin Orchestra and Warren Zanes
Posted Thursday, February 2
Black History Month coverage and Terence Spivey
Posted Wednesday, February 1
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Applause celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this televised arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews.
Production of arts and culture programming on ideastream is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation; Eaton Corporation Charitable Foundation; The George Gund Foundation; The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation; The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation; The Kulas Foundation; The Nord Family Foundation; Parker Hannifin Foundation; The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust; and NACCO Industries, Inc.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
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