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Strauss’s Don Quixote

July 23, 2026, 10:00 pm

Don Quixote on horseback with a barber's bowl on his head as a hat, print, Louis Surugue, after Charles Antoine Coypel. (Photo: Louis Surugue, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote
Bernard Haitink, conductor
Cynthia Phelps, viola; Carter Brey, cello

Oscar Bettison: Threaded Madrigals for Solo Viola
Rebecca Young, viola

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Frank Huang, violin

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