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Jacque Harper
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Bassist, founder of the Chicago Bass Ensemble. jacqueharper.bandcamp.com Https://www.chicagobassensemble.com Was on the other social platform as ChicagoBassEns.
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Today’s office—rehearsal with Evanston Symphony Orchestra for tomorrow’s holiday concert evanstonsymphony.org
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Selfie-style photo with bass headstock in foreground and orchestra musicians in background. All in street clothes because this is just a rehearsal.
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Today’s office

Sing-along Messiah at Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago. December 7, 3:30 pm. Free. Reception following.
#musiciansky #chicago www.secondpreschicago.org/sing-along-m...
In the foreground the headstock of a double bass, in the background members of a small orchestra with the colorful stained glass windows of Second Presbyterian church in the far background.
December 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Next Sunday in Chicago—Sing-along Messiah at Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago. December 7, 3:30 pm. Free. Reception following.
I've been playing this one for quite a few years, and always look forward to it. #musiciansky #chicago www.secondpreschicago.org/sing-along-m...
A poster announcing Singalong Messiah at Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Line art style illustration of two angels playing trumpets facing each other. An elaborate floral-like border surrounds the angels and text describing the place, time and soloists. The colors of the image are red (for the border and most of the text) and green (for the angles and some of the text). Text: Singalong Messiah. Tony Krempa, Conductor; Michael Shawgo, organ; Sherry Watkins, Sadie Cheslak, Dominic Reyes & Vince Wallace, soloists; Free admission December 7, 3:30pm; Reception following; Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
December 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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My office tonight and the next few nights, as well as some of next week. “She Loves Me” (Bock/Harnick based on a play by Miklos Laszlo) at Harper College on n Palatine, IL. #MusicianSky
Headstock of an upright bass in the left foreground, musicians with various instruments in the orchestra pit in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Rehearsal for Evanston Symphony Orchestra concert tomorrow evanstonsymphony.org/concert/octo... #MusicianSky
I do honestly regret missing local NoKings rallies, although this is also important to me.
“Selfie”-style image of a double bass scroll in the foreground and a stage full of chairs, stands and musicians (a symphony orchestra) crowded onstage in the background.
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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TACO

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

#TACO
Screen capture from a NYTimes article reading “On Ukraine and Gaza Trump Casts Himself as an Outsider, if He Can’t Be a Pracemaker”
September 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Chicago #LaboeDay Rally

“Mainstream Media Democracy is Dying. Stop saying we’re WOKE, we are worried you are ASLEEP”
Sign held up in a crowd, reading “Mainstream Media Democracy is Dying. Stop saying we’re WOKE, we are worried you are ASLEEP”
September 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Chicago Labor Day Rally! #LaborDay
Crowd preparing to march; signs and flags protesting the Trump regime and ICE
September 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Warmup rehearsal for Karasis’ “An American Civil War Memorial” in Elmhurst, IL this afternoon.
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August 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Gillson Park in Wilmette, with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra #MusicianSky
August 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Rehearsal for Sunday concert of the Evanston Symphony … evanstonsymphony.org … I’m told there are a few tickets still available
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June 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Audience filing in for Liszt Missa Solemnis — Tower Chorale at Emmanuel Episcopal #MusicianSky
Bass scroll in foreground as people fill in the pews of a Gothic style church
May 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Warm up rehearsal for the Tower Chirale’s performance of Missa Solemnis by Liszt. Emmanuel Episcopal in Lagrange, IL. #musicuansky
May 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Last picture didn’t do justice to the venue: St. Mary of the Lake Church in Chicago. Loyola Academy Choirs Spring Concert. Mozart Coronation Mass #MusicianSky
May 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Warm up for Loyola Academy Choirs’ Spring concert. Mozart Coronation Mass, KV 317
May 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Dress rehearsal for tomorrow’s Evanston Symphony Orchestra evanstonsymphony.org performance of Brahms Requiem. Sold out so I’ll spare you the details 😀 #musiciansky
April 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I think this is the way??
March 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Here's a message I came up with. Feel free to borrow from it and improve it.
Please do not complete any deal with Elon Musk, Twitter, “X” . . . Musk is actively working to invade the private lives of individuals, and to destroy the hard-fought safeguards for American citizens against fraud. Working with Musk signals to him that everything he is doing is just fine with you, and it should not be. Trust in your products is built upon trust in financial institutions in general, and if Musk destroys that trust, it will affect you as well. Thank you for considering my request.
February 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Just minutes away from Messiah at 2d Presbyterian in Chicago. 2ndpresbyterian.org/event/sing-a...

If you can’t make it here in person, catch the online livestream: 2ndpresbyterian.org/live-stream/
“Selfie” with a double bass headstock in the left foreground and a small orchestra in the center, against a backdrop of stained glass in many colors.
December 15, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Refret
#Bass
Closeup photo of the maple fingerboard of a Fender jazz bass showing the new frets, black fingerboard binding and square position markers of ‘71 or ‘72 instrument.
November 24, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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Inexplicably, you’ve got a home when you visit my neighborhood, @buffalo716.bsky.social
A three-panel window, in a red brick and white-mortared building, with three flags hung vertically, displaying the logos of American football teams the Chicago Bears in one window, the Buffalo Bills in the center and a team I don’t know (maybe Denver?) in the third.
November 16, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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A recording session I played on a couple years ago has finally gotten through all the editing and mastering and is finally available!
My left elbow is featured at 0:34 in the first video: youtu.be/pGR-Vnd9n_Q
There are two other short videos with Michael Abels and Augusta Read Thomas.
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The album cover art for "Children's Stories" a recording by the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. An image of a front stoop of an apartment building, children standing at the top step of a short flight of stairs, another walking up the stairs; a child in a polka dot dress pushing a toy stroller and a boy chasing a ball are on the sidewalk. A mother and child watch from a window. There is a tree in the foreground. Text on the image gives the title of the album. This image is itself superimposed atop images from the recording session of the album: the conductor giving a cue, violin and cello players focusing on their music. At the bottom of the image, logos of the places where the album can be purchased are shown on a black banner, as well as a QR code.
November 16, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Last Sigur Rós post. Band has set themselves in the middle of the orchestra, rather than at the front of the stage. To me that says “listen to the music, appreciate the orchestra, it’s not about us alone.” Props. #MusicianSky #Bass
Dimly, in the foreground corner, a double bass scroll. Main part of the photo, a band and orchestra onstage with moody lighting and smoke effects.
September 21, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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Auditorium Theater in Chicago is a beautiful hall. Looking forward to Sigur Rós tonight. #MusicianSky #bass
September 21, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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On a break rehearsing with Sigur Rös (did I get the diacritic right?) at Chicago’s Auditorium Theater. Concert in 5 hours—do you have your ticket? #MusicianSky #Bass
September 21, 2024 at 7:26 PM