Our 60th Anniversary Season concludes with Dreamers and Visionaries, a program that celebrates imagination and ambition through music inspired by those who dare to pursue worlds beyond ordinary reality. Strauss’ Don Quixote brings Cervantes’ legendary dreamer vividly to life in an exciting musical quest filled with humor, humanity, and misadventure. Ben Deighton (Ann Keller Young Soloist Competition Winner, 2017 & 2019) returns as the cello soloist representing the title character, joined by his father, violist Tim Deighton, who accompanies him on his musical journey representing the faithful Sancho Panza.

The program concludes with Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, a work of overwhelming emotional intensity that moves from yearning and desire toward transcendence and release. Together, these works create a journey through fantasy and passion, celebrating dreamers in all their forms, from literary figures to those who sustain an organization such as NVS for 60 wonderful years of music-making.