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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A different desk for me at tonight’s office, supporting a high school choir concert in Wilmette, IL. #MusicianSky

Headstock of a five-string electric bass in the foreground; an empty stage ready for a choir concert in the background.

Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sound setup for a special guest artist performing Leroy Anderson’s “The Typewriter.” #MusicianSky Evanston Symphony summer pops concert

Sound technicians adjusting microphones in front of a manual typewriter. Onstage in front of the orchestra.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Coming up in just a few minutes! evanstonsymphony.org/concert/summ... #musiciansky

Foreground: the scroll of a double bass. Background: seated orchestra in white tops; on stage in an open air amphitheater.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Rehearsal with Evanston Symphony for concert tomorrow. #MusicianSky Bizet, de Falla, Glazounow, Stravinsky

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Enjoyed seeing this at a local gas station.

A photo of an ice vending machine at a gas station. Above the word “ice” the word “resist” has been added in a font resembling the other text. The word “resist” is embellished with graphics to look as if it has snow accumulating on the letters. Stylistically the added word blends with the original graphics so that this will be easy to overlook.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

For those of you who read the New York Times, “terse, vague or rosy” would appear to be their euphemism for “misleading or outright false.”

A screenshot from the New York Times showing Donald Trump waving and the headline “Trump Undergoes a Physical Exam at Walter Reed”

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The three B’s of my neighborhood in Chicago, #RogersPark : Baby Bunnies and Bubbles.

A juvenile rabbit sitting in a lawn under a fern.

A picture of a five-story apartment building taken from the sidewalk. On one of the balconies a bank of machines a pumping soap bubbles into the air.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Playing a couple songs with the St. John Family Hour marlonstjohn.bandcamp.com/album/the-st... tonight at Grandpa’s in Glenview, IL! (Photo is setup… gig starts soon… when setup is done, you know how it goes!)

Double bass headstock in foreground at left while setup of the stage with guitars, drums, microphones goes on in the background.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Chicago Federation of Labor's May Day March #UnionMusicians #UnionProud #CFM10-208

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Chicago Federation of Labor May Day 5K (I’m AFM 10-208)

Runners lined up for alongside Lake Michigan and McCormick Place convention center waiting for the run to begin.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Refreshingly unobstructed view from the rear of the bass section tonight. Evanston Symphony Orchestra; concert Sunday, 2:30 pm at Pick-Staiger hall, Northwestern University. #MusicianSky

In the style of a selfie. Foreground: headstock of a double bass. Midfield: chairs and stands set up for on orchestra rehearsal. Background: grand piano, lid open.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

WTF is this, an account with no posts and 505 followers? Gotta be some kind of ‘bot, yeah?

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Pick-Staiger Hall filling up for today’s EvanstonSymphony.org concert. #MusicianSky

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Final rehearsal for tomorrow’s EvanstonSymphony.org concert. The seating chaos when piano is added to the stage… #MusicianSky

Foreground left, a double bass headstock. Background, musicians milling around on stage as chairs and stands are moved to new locations.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

…all around the Chicago loop…

Protesters marching through the streets of Chicago’s loop, between tall buildings under gray sky with snow falling.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I think it’s a #GoodOmen when you’re having coffee with your partner and the barista’s heart-shaped latté art lasts through your entire drink.

A clear glass on a wooden countertop, viewed from three-quarters above. In the glass is the foam remaining after drinking an entire cafe latté; the heart-shaped white foam on the background of tan foam is still visible.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Today’s office—rehearsal with Evanston Symphony Orchestra for tomorrow’s holiday concert evanstonsymphony.org #musiciansky

Selfie-style photo with bass headstock in foreground and orchestra musicians in background. All in street clothes because this is just a rehearsal.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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”

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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”

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Warmup rehearsal for Karasis’ “An American Civil War Memorial” in Elmhurst, IL this afternoon. #MusicianSky

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Gillson Park in Wilmette, with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra #MusicianSky

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Rehearsal for Sunday concert of the Evanston Symphony … evanstonsymphony.org … I’m told there are a few tickets still available #MusicianSky

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

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

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Warm up rehearsal for the Tower Chirale’s performance of Missa Solemnis by Liszt. Emmanuel Episcopal in Lagrange, IL. #musicuansky

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Warm up for Loyola Academy Choirs’ Spring concert. Mozart Coronation Mass, KV 317

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Dress rehearsal for tomorrow’s Evanston Symphony Orchestra evanstonsymphony.org performance of Brahms Requiem. Sold out so I’ll spare you the details 😀 #musiciansky

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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. #MusicianSky

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

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.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Auditorium Theater in Chicago is a beautiful hall. Looking forward to Sigur Rós tonight. #MusicianSky #bass

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

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

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Rehearsal 2 for tomorrow nights concert Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Through Ella’s Eyes #MusicianSky #bass

Projected image of Ella Fitzgerald on screen above musicians rehearsing onstage at Logan Center in Chicago; partial view of double bass scroll at left foreground.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Rehearsal with Chicago Jazz Philharmonic for concert “Through Ella’s Eyes”—Saturday Aug. 17 at the Logan Center, University of Chicago. #MusicianSky #bass

Double bass scroll in the foreground, orchestra musicians seated in a rehearsal room

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

I’m pleased to have received my first ever payment from the Sound Recording Special Payments Fund! #MailboxMoney #musiciansky From a session with the Illinois Philharmonic. #bass #AmericanFederationOfMusicians #union It’s not a big amount but I’m inordinately happy at this career milestone.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Last night’s concert with the Racine Symphony

The scene onstage: musicians in white-jacket formal attire, music stands, music. In the foreground corner the headstock of a double bass, as if this were a selfie taken by the bass.

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Jacque Harper @jacqueh.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Very happy to announce I have hit 1,000! That is to say, I have hit the "No thanks" button on YouTube's TV offer a thousand times ... and counting. Care much what your users think, YouTube? Yeah, I knew you didn't. #UXFail #UserExperience

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