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Arts & Culture

Recent Coverage

68th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Around Noon: Thursday, September 18, 2003
Dee previews the 2003 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards with chairman, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., and some of this year’s winners.

Dr. Valerie Capers Interview
Jazz Tracks: Sunday, April 13, 2003
Despite losing her sight as a youth, Dr. Valerie Capers has enjoyed a brilliant career as a singer, pianist and educator. Originally from the Bronx, New York, classically trained Capers was the first blind graduate of prestigious Juilliard in New York. It was my pleasure to speak with Ms. Capers in April, 2003.

For the Love of Art: Dorothy and Reuben Silver
Around Noon: Thursday, February 13, 2003
“For the Love of Art” continues on with local theater legends, Dorothy and Reuben Silver. Then we’ll hear from the principals starring in the new Cleveland Play House production – “Crumbs from the Table of Joy.”

67th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Around Noon: Thursday, September 26, 2002
Dee speaks with winners of this year's Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

A Quiet Crisis: The Value of Local Artists
Regional News Stories: Thursday, May 23, 2002
An arts summit a few weeks ago has spurred some additional interest in Cleveland area artists.

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Funding

Production of arts and culture programming on ideastream is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation
The 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.

OAC
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.