The 2019/2020 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance

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For

many

years,
I've

put

together
a

little

pocket

guide

to the

Seattle

Symphony

subscription

season
for my symphony friends to help them decide which
ticket package they want.
At some point, we may start subscribing again, but for now,
we pick-and-choose individual concerts.

Here's the
at-a-glance season guide for the 2019/2020 season,
still with no comments from me because
it's not worth
trying to rate every piece to help my friends pick one concert.
If you're my friend and want recommendations, just call.
Besides, you can probably preview nearly all of the pieces
nowadays
(minus the premieres) by searching on YouTube.

• 
  
  Official brochure.
  It's called the "1920 season" because it's short for "2019/2020",
  not because it's the year 1920.


• 
  
  Press release


• 
  
  Season highlights

This is Thomas Dausgaard's inaugural season as the Seattle Symphony's
music director,
taking over from Ludovic Morlot who steps down after eight seasons.
Dausgaard had been the symphony's principal guest conductor since 2014.

¹ World Premiere

² U.S. Premiere

Insider tip: Click a column header to focus on a specific series.
(This feature has been around for several years, actually.)

Legend:

For those not familiar with the Seattle Symphony ticket package line-ups:
Most of the ticket packages are named Masterworks nX where
n is
the number is the number of concerts in the package, and the letter
indicates the variation.
Ticket packages have been combined if they are
identical save for the day of the week.
For example, 8C and 8D are the same concerts;
the only difference is that 8C is for Thursday nights, while 8D is
for Saturday nights.
For some reason, they renamed the 5H series to 5A this year.

Notes and changes:

• The 7[AB], 8[CD], and 7[EF] concert series do not overlap,
  so you can create your own pseudo-series
  by taking any two of them,
  or recreate the 22-concert series by taking all three.
  


• The 13-concert series is the same as the 8[CD]
  and 7[EF] series combined, minus the
  Febuary 6 and June 25 concerts.
  


• 
  Composer John Adams conducts a concert of his works.
  


• 
  Not included above are other regular series that do not
  overlap with the Masterworks series:
  Pops, Recitals, [untitled] (contemporary music),
  Chamber music, Family Concerts, and Tiny Tots.
  


• At some point, the Distinguished Artists series was dropped.
  I failed to note when this happened.
  I just remembered that there used to be one,
  and it's not there any more.


• For the first time in many seasons,
  there is no overlap between the Baroque and Wine
  series and the Masterworks series.
  Technically, this means it wouldn't be eligible for
  the chart above, but I keep including them out of habit.
  


• In June, you can binge the complete
  symphonies of Beethoven.
  Because, c'mon, you know you want to.
  


• There are always one-off concerts scattered through
  the year. Of special note is a
  a two-concert Rach Fest covering all four piano concerti.
  


• 
  The Seattle Symphony
  
  Family Connections program is still going.
  It provides free symphony tickets for up to two
  children with the purchase of an adult ticket.