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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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"Wherever Mikhail Baryshnikov is right now, odds are he's stretching something.  Warming up or cooling down.  It's all part of an hours-long regimen involving ballet barres and floor mats and excercise balls, necessary to keep his 61-year-old body in fighting trim."

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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

"These days, leading countertenors such as David Daniels are becoming familiar figures not just in opera houses where the Handel operas are being rediscovered, but also as star attractions on the concert stage."

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"David Daniels is riding high.  At 43 the countertenor has mastered his art in a way that matches singers of the Golden Age of Opera in their more traditional voice categories.  A fine actor and handsome, dark-bearded, even macho physical presence onstage, he has a deserved following for his opera, concert and recital appearance, as well as his excellent recordings."

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“First indie-rock percussionist Glenn Kotche, now the Hilliard Ensemble, a British vocal group well known for its way with 14th century motets. Eighth blackbird, the Chicago-based contemporary music sextet, has blithely ignored musical categories in its concerts this season at the Harris Theater."

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"Anyone doubting the relevance of new classical music must surely have overlooked eighth blackbird, a sextet that in a few short years has built a following that would make most purveyors of the traditional canon green with envy."

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“The Harris Theater at Chicago's Millennium Park played host to a unique concert where world-renown The Hilliard Ensemble joined forces with eighth blackbird to pay tribue to the compositions of Stephen Hartke.”

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