Heather Brown

Heather Brown is a classical music fan whose real jobs are working in international logistics and transportation during the week and teaching English on the weekends. A Returned Peace Corps volunteer (Bulgaria 2000-2002), she is a graduate of both Indiana University, where she spent three years playing clarinet in the Marching Hundred and Big Red Pep Band, and Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. The 2012-2013 season is Heather’s first time ever buying season tickets. Next season, she plans to see even more than a 4-pack’s worth of concerts thanks to a high amount of Mozart, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff on the schedule. While her quest to fill the rear balcony of the Ohio Theatre continues, she has to date, already talked at least one friend into buying season tickets with her. Additionally, she still hopes the CSO will someday take her up on her offer to be a seat filler (during rehearsals) for the clarinet section for which she promises to turn pages but not actually play. In her spare time, she designs knit and crochet patterns for various yarn companies while actively seeking to add more stamps to her passport. She is the author of The Itinerant Knitter a blog about fiber arts, music and cool culture.

TAFTO 2013 Contribution: Heather Brown

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EMBRACE THE PARADOX Thanks to my parents’ influence, I grew up playing and listening to classical music.  I also grew up loving sports.  Thankfully, Columbus, Ohio has both. Even with a terrific classical music scene though, Ohio State University athletics always seems to get the upper hand in this town.  OK, sure. Ohio’s a football state, but I think the two actually complement each other and have more in common than …

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