Jason Heilman

Jason Heilman

@jsheilman.bsky.social

Musicology PhD turned classical radio host in Wisconsin.

1,240 Followers 833 Following 180 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 day ago

That's why he's missing from a good part of TOS season 2.

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6 days ago

The United States was riding high, but then it all came crashing down.

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1 week ago

Firing the music director who won half of your Grammys for you is certainly a choice.

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1 week ago

Things American society has totally melted down over:
- "reefer"
- Dungeons & Dragons
- the song Suicide Solution
- Grand Theft Auto Vice City
- imaginary razor blades in Halloween candy

Things we're apparently fine with:
- a computer that tells you to kill yourself

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1 week ago
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Margaret Bonds' Montgomery Variations (1964) | Minnesota Orchestra | Scott Yoo YouTube video by Minnesota Orchestra

People need to know her Montgomery Variations. They're pretty amazing: youtu.be/ereaXUDie-A?...

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2 weeks ago
A freshly opened bag of Old Dutch All Dressed Ripples potato chips.

As a tribute to Team Canada and their efforts on the ice, I'm going to go ahead and eat this entire bag of chips today.

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2 weeks ago

I can't imagine what it feels like to be a Winnipeg fan right now.

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1 month ago

Thinking about all the guys about to have their minds blown at halftime when their wives/girlfriends/moms say "oh, hey, we dance to this at zumba! I love this song!"

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1 month ago

Reefer Madness

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1 month ago

His other compositions include the opera scene in The Fifth Element, and I hope his Mahler 10 completion sounds like that.

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1 month ago
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Frédéric Chaslin - Wikipedia

I think it's this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A...

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1 month ago

When we played Louie, Louie in high school marching band it was marked Tempo di Louie and it's hard to argue with that.

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2 months ago

Whiskey Tango Fridays

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4 months ago

No taxation with aerial defecation.

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4 months ago
Lucille Vaughan Payne's Two Commandments, from The Lively Art of Writing: 1. Do not use the first person; and 2. Do not use the word "there" -- ever.

So do you endorse Lucile Vaughan Payne's jihad against the word itself?

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5 months ago

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

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5 months ago

I'm pretty sure the Rapture already happened, and the only person taken was Prince.

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5 months ago
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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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7 months ago
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

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7 months ago
"Local. Trusted. Defunded." is featured on the GBH Mural in Boston, Mass., on July 18, 2025.

Federal funding is gone.
But we're not going anywhere.

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7 months ago
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The End of Public Radio Music? Bob Boilen writes about the importance of public radio music amid looming cuts.

"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."

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8 months ago

No there isn't.

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8 months ago

It Never Rains (In Southern Amazonia)

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8 months ago

Imagine being in charge of the Enterprise laundry that week.

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8 months ago

The Expanse except for Amos.

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10 months ago

I'm a fan of Weinberg's op. 18 piano quintet. An interesting contrast with Shostakovich.

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10 months ago

I bet Disney would pay real money for a Pope Lando II.

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10 months ago

this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’

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10 months ago

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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11 months ago

I did not plan it that way - I just felt like hearing this new recording today!

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