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"Harris' show fills in kids' picture of the Old West." 

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"Many of Chicago's classical music producers, including Chicago Opera Theater, wait until the final three months of the concert season before hauling out their choicest wares.  Still, there is a lot of tempting music to look forward to between now and then."

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"Once upon a time, if you didn't "Subscribe Now!," in the immortal words of the late publicity maven Danny Newman, you were left out in the cold for much of the classical music scene in Chicago."

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"10 must-see events:  You would never guess the economy remains on the ropes nationwide, based on the sheer quantity, quality and diversity of classical music in and around Chicago this season.  Here are 10 major offerings you'll want to check out between now and the end of the year..."

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"This usually fertile fall season is heavily front-loaded, with the first weekend in October something of a historic feast.  Here are but a few highlights..."

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"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart." said Martha Graham that grand dame of American dance, and this fall, the "fever chart" in Chicago is set to high as the city's stages welcome everyone from Mikhail Baryshnikov to Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet, from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (arriving soon after the death of its namesake) to Chicago's own Joffrey Ballet in an evening-length work based on Shakespeare's Othello."

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"Eat to the Beat debuts this season as three lunchtime dance performances at the Harris Theater, Sept 15, Nov 17 and Feb 23."

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"Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance will welcome Tony Award winners Stephen Sondheim and Christine Ebersole in 2010."

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About the Harris Theater

"The Harris Theater for Music and Dance at Millennium Park will welcome dance superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov, pianist Lang Lang, soprano Kathleen Battle and a new Broadway series featuring composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim on its 2009-2010 subscription season."

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"When icon Mikhail Baryshnikov last performed in Chicago at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in July 2007, he generated the venue's greatest Web site traffic ever.  He also became the only multiple-night engagement at the Harris for which all performances (including an added matinee) sold out.  Now a return visit has been announced, along with the Harris Theater's schedule for the 2009-2010 season."

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Recent Performance Reviews

"With Trocks, Ballet is Glorious Drag."

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"Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, based in New York, may be a bunch of drag queens in pointe shoes hawking sight gags and stumbling here and there, but when it comes to the spirit of ballet, it embodies it more clearly than a lot of the big-ticket companies I watch wander lost in a hall of mirrors."

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"Humor and eclectic dance blended on stage Wednesday at Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance."

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