Harris Theater in Chicago, IL 12/14/15 - Craig Terry pb Renée Fleming Neal Alger Patrick Mulcahy, Jon Deitemyer.    Photo by Adam Weisenfarth

Renée Fleming said, “I’m thrilled to be performing with Patricia Barber. When I was introduced to her work years ago, I was immediately struck by her uniquely sophisticated lyrics, her musical vocabulary, which, though idiomatically jazz, evokes art songs for me, and the intimacy she conveys in performance. In developing a series for the Harris Theater, I thought, ‘How better to launch the project than by collaborating with my now friend, Patricia?’”