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. For a few years now, we haven’t ordered any tickets at all because we all have young children, but I still make this guide out of some sense of obligation.
So here’s the at-a-glance season guide for the 2014/2015 season anyway, again with no comments from me because nobody I know is going to use them to decide which tickets to order. Besides, you can probably preview nearly all of the pieces nowadays (minus the premieres) by searching on YouTube.
Here is the official brochure for those who want to read the details, and you can see what The Seattle Times thinks of it.
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Week | Program | 21 | 13 | 7A 7B |
7C 7D |
7E 7F |
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09/18 2014 |
Wagner: Die Meistersinger Overture Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 Dvořák: Symphony #7 |
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09/25 2014 |
Dutilleux; Métaboles Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Dvořák: Symphony #8 |
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10/02 2014 |
Dvořák: Bagatelles John Adams: Lollapalooza Korngold: Violin Concerto Dvořák: Symphony #9, “From the New World” |
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10/30 2014 |
R. Strauss: Metamorphosen Mozart: Requiem |
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11/06 2014 |
Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen: Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4 |
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11/13 2014 |
Esteban Bezecry: Colors of the Southern Cross Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition |
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11/20 2014 |
Boccherini: String Quintet in E major Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture Respighi: Church Windows Beethoven: Symphony #6 |
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12/11 2014 |
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite Mason Bates: Cello Concerto Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty excerpts |
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01/16 2015 |
Bach: Violin Concerto #2 Brahms: Academic Festival Overture Beethoven: Symphony #3, “Eroica” |
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01/29 2015 |
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 Ives: Symphony #4 |
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02/05 2015 |
Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture Beethoven: Violin Concerto Debussy: Ibéria Ravel: La valse |
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02/12 | Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17 | ||||||||||||
03/12 2015 |
Sibelius: Finlandia Sibelius: Symphony #1 Sibelius: Symphony #2 |
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03/19 2015 |
Sibelius: Symphony #3 Sibelius: Violin Concerto Sibelius: Symphony #4 |
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03/26 2015 |
Sibelius: Symphony #5 Sibelius: Symphony #6 Sibelius: Symphony #7 |
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04/02 2015 |
Szymanowski: Concert Overture Chopin: Piano Concerto #2 Prokofiev: Symphony #5 |
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04/16 2015 |
Schnittke: Violin Concerto #4 Shostakovich: Symphony #7, “Leningrad” |
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04/23 2015 |
Sebastian Currier: World Premiere Grieg: Piano Concerto Schumann: Symphony #2 |
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04/30 2015 |
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 Beethoven: Symphony #7 |
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05/28 2015 |
Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla Overture Borodin: Symphony #2 Prokofiev: Cinderella excerpts |
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06/11 2015 |
Beethoven: Egmont Overture Julian Anderson: Violin Concerto Brahms: Symphony #1 |
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06/18 | Mahler: Symphony #3 | ||||||||||||
Week | Program | 21 | 13 | 7A 7B |
7C 7D |
7E 7F |
7G | 4A | SU | WG |
Legend:
21 | Masterworks 21-concert series (Choice of Thursdays or Saturdays) |
13 | Masterworks 13-concert series (Choice of Thursdays or Saturdays) |
7A | Masterworks 7-concert series A (Thursdays) |
7B | Masterworks 7-concert series B (Saturdays) |
7C | Masterworks 7-concert series C (Thursdays) |
7D | Masterworks 7-concert series D (Saturdays) |
7E | Masterworks 7-concert series E (Thursdays) |
7F | Masterworks 7-concert series F (Saturdays) |
7G | Masterworks 7-concert series G (Sunday afternoons) |
4A | Masterworks 4-concert series A (Friday afternoons) |
SU | Symphony Untuxed (Fridays, reduced program) |
WG | WolfGang (Various evenings), see notes below |
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 which variation. Ticket packages have been combined if they are identical save for the day of the week. For example, 7C and 7D are the same concerts; the only difference is that 7C is for Thursday nights, while 7D is for Saturday nights.
The WolfGang series is available only to members of the WolfGang club. It also includes one concert not listed in the chart above: The Movie Music of John Williams.
This chart doesn’t include concert series such as the Mozart Concertos or Distinguished Artists series which share no concerts with any of the Masterworks concerts.
Notes and changes:
- The 7[AB], 7[CD], and 7[EF] concert series do not overlap, so you can create your own 14-concert series by taking any two of them, or recreate the 21-concert series by taking all three.
- The 13-concert series is the same as the 7[CD] and 7[EF] series combined, minus the November 13 concert.
- The non-Masterworks series line-up has been tweaked. The Mozart series is now a concerto series, and there is a Sunday Untuxed series for families.
- The Sunday Untuxed series squeezes out the the Behind the Score series, though there is a one-shot Behind the Score concert for Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony.
There are two festivals: Dvořák and Sibelius. Although there are no ticket packages specifically for the Dvořák or Sibelius concerts, tickets for the concerts are available individually so you can make your own festival.
And this year, they made a promotional video.
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