Jason Heilman
@jsheilman.bsky.social
Musicology PhD turned classical radio host in Wisconsin.
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glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
October 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
I'm pretty sure the Rapture already happened, and the only person taken was Prince.
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm pretty sure the Rapture already happened, and the only person taken was Prince.
Playing the Dover Quartet's new album with works by Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate and Pura Fé as our New Classical Album of the Week on WPR Music.
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Playing the Dover Quartet's new album with works by Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate and Pura Fé as our New Classical Album of the Week on WPR Music.
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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"More than 23 mill listeners tune in to 687 public radio music stations. It would affect almost all programming, incl AAA stations with genres such as independent rock, bluegrass, folk, jazz, gospel, country, soul, hip-hop, local music. 96% of all classical music is played on public radio stations."
The End of Public Radio Music?
Bob Boilen writes about the importance of public radio music amid looming cuts.
noncommusic.org
July 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"More than 23 mill listeners tune in to 687 public radio music stations. It would affect almost all programming, incl AAA stations with genres such as independent rock, bluegrass, folk, jazz, gospel, country, soul, hip-hop, local music. 96% of all classical music is played on public radio stations."
It Never Rains (In Southern Amazonia)
These capybaras look like they’re about to drop the hottest rap album of all time
July 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It Never Rains (In Southern Amazonia)
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this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’
April 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’
It never ceases to amaze me how noisy commercial classical recordings can be. So many birds. The Tokyo String Quartet has a full-on police chase going on in the background of one of their more recent Beethoven records.
Classical musicians: this humble audio engineer would like to gently and politely encourage you to step softly on your nifty iPad page-turn pedals, so that I don't have to edit out each plasticky stegosaurus stomp individually.
April 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
It never ceases to amaze me how noisy commercial classical recordings can be. So many birds. The Tokyo String Quartet has a full-on police chase going on in the background of one of their more recent Beethoven records.
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
Playing the violin concerto by Amanda Röntgen-Maier on today's radio show. This is definitely a composer we should be hearing more from.
March 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Playing the violin concerto by Amanda Röntgen-Maier on today's radio show. This is definitely a composer we should be hearing more from.
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It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
March 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
When we blew up the canon we were supposed to replace it with a new one. But we didn't and now two generations, lacking any cultural references in common, are blowing up academia instead.
one thing i am genuinely convinced of (and my most conservative take) is that we need to bring classical education back
Nobody talks like this anymore.
March 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When we blew up the canon we were supposed to replace it with a new one. But we didn't and now two generations, lacking any cultural references in common, are blowing up academia instead.
We all know this to be true. It's literally what Office Space was about.
“The scariest words in the English language are ‘I’m from the private sector and I’m here to maximize efficiency.’”
March 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We all know this to be true. It's literally what Office Space was about.
Does anyone else hear this in Werner Herzog's voice?
Just me then?
Okay.
Just me then?
Okay.
What if we enhanced our lovemaking with the erotic nugget
February 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Does anyone else hear this in Werner Herzog's voice?
Just me then?
Okay.
Just me then?
Okay.
I'm finally playing Doreen Carwithen's One Damn Thing After Another Overture on the air today, so there's that at least. Couldn't be any more apt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I'm finally playing Doreen Carwithen's One Damn Thing After Another Overture on the air today, so there's that at least. Couldn't be any more apt.
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The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
February 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
Gene Roddenberry has entered the chat.
February 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Gene Roddenberry has entered the chat.
If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live
January 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live
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What if an AI could save time and energy by opening the pod bay doors *for* you?
January 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What if an AI could save time and energy by opening the pod bay doors *for* you?
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. play in a symphony orchestra
2. music performance
3. (I went to grad school in musicology)
4. classical radio host
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. play in a symphony orchestra
2. music performance
3. (I went to grad school in musicology)
4. classical radio host
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. to write about music & work as a performing musician
2. music performance
3. N/A
4. musicology professor!
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. to write about music & work as a performing musician
2. music performance
3. N/A
4. musicology professor!
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. SF author
2. Philosophy
3. Philosophy —> English
4. Teach Information Science, so, basically, SF author
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. SF author
2. Philosophy
3. Philosophy —> English
4. Teach Information Science, so, basically, SF author
January 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. play in a symphony orchestra
2. music performance
3. (I went to grad school in musicology)
4. classical radio host
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. play in a symphony orchestra
2. music performance
3. (I went to grad school in musicology)
4. classical radio host
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Welcome, TikTok users! Bluesky is just like TikTok, except instead of videos we post words and instead of fun we have "discourse"
January 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Welcome, TikTok users! Bluesky is just like TikTok, except instead of videos we post words and instead of fun we have "discourse"
My hot take on the Vienna #NewYearsConcert is that it would be a lot more relevant if they took a page from #9LC and started commissioning a new dance from a living composer each year.
January 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My hot take on the Vienna #NewYearsConcert is that it would be a lot more relevant if they took a page from #9LC and started commissioning a new dance from a living composer each year.