Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is a concert venue designed by architect Ieoh Ming Pei in the Arts District of Dallas , Texas, opened in September 1989 . The concert hall is subordinate to the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and is the seat of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra . It is counted among the best concert halls in the world. Since 1992, the Eugene McDermott Concert Hall has housed a concert organ from the well-known US organ building company CB Fisk .
history
The concert hall was named after the Texan manager Morton H. Meyerson ( Electronic Data Systems ), who was also chairman of the building committee. In the 1980s, the building was constructed according to the plans of the Chinese-American star architect Ieoh Ming Pei for more than 100 million US dollars, with the initially estimated construction costs increasing significantly over time. EDS founder Ross Perot donated $ 10 million on the condition that the building would be named after Meyerson.
The building project was based on the Wiener Musikverein and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and was intended to replace the Music Hall at Fair Park , which was said to have poor acoustics . The heart of the concert hall is the 2065-seat Eugene McDermott Concert Hall , which was named after the major donor Eugene McDermott ( Texas Instruments ). The concert hall is modeled on a shoe box ; the New York acoustics company Artec Consultants led by Russell Johnson was hired for the work.
On November 6, 1989, the concert hall was pre-opened by the orchestra with Ludwig van Beethoven's violin concerto , played by Isaac Stern .
After the assassination attempt on police officers in Dallas on July 7, 2016 , the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center u. a. The official memorial ceremony was held with the participation of US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush .
In addition to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Wind Symphony and the Turtle Creek Chorale found their home in the Konzerthaus . Benefit concerts , music festivals , church services and company meetings have already been held at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center . Well-known guest artists such as Yo-Yo Ma , Itzhak Perlman , David Sanborn and Ray Charles performed in the concert hall.
In 1994 the national convention of the American Guild of Organists was held here. In addition, the first Dallas International Organ Competition took place in the Konzerthaus in 1997 .
organ
At the inauguration of the $ 1.8 million Lay Family Concert Organ (Opus 100) donated by the Lay Widow ( Frito-Lay ) on September 2, 1992, the organist Michael Murray played with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Eduardo Mata . The program included Richard Strauss ' Festive Prelude , Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani and Camille Saint-Saëns ' 3rd Symphony (also organ symphony).
Charles B. Fisk ( CB Fisk , Inc.) from Gloucester, Massachusetts designed a disposition as part of the 1982 order . After his death in 1983, his plans were largely adhered to: According to this, the organ consists of six parts , namely the main work - positive - swell - pedal as well as the resonance and tuba work. The main work is based on north German standards of the 17th / 18th centuries. Century on, the principal choir is on a 16 'basis, plus a mixture of 8-12. The positive has a German-Dutch-French baroque touch . The swell arrangement is reminiscent of a Récit from France in the 19th century. The sub-units each have two wind pressures . The resonance, i.e. pedal work, is based on its French model (in a modified form). Stylistically, the tuba work is based on the English organ builder Willis .
The basic technical data are as follows: 66 registers , 84 rows of pipes and 4535 pipes .
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literature
- Leo Beranek : Concert halls and opera houses: music, acoustics, and architecture . 2nd edition, Springer, New York a. a. 2002, ISBN 0-387-95524-0 , p. 75 ff.
- Hans Uwe Hielscher : Famous organs of the USA . Dohr, Cologne-Rheinkassel 2002, ISBN 3-925366-91-1 , pp. 251-253.
- Stephanie M. Salazar: Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center . In: Handbook of Texas Online , uploaded June 4, 2015; changed on August 8, 2015.
- Laurie Shulman: The Meyerson Symphony Center: building a dream . University of North Texas Press, Denton 2000, ISBN 1-57441-082-2 .
Web links
items
- Thor Eckert Jr .: The Jewel of Dallas: A New World-Class Concert Hall . In: The Christian Science Monitor , September 25, 1989.
- Paul Goldberger : Review / Architecture: After 9 years Dallas Concet Hall is Opening . In: The New York Times , September 8, 1989, pp. C20.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Venues , mydso.com, accessed on 12 September 2018th
- ↑ See Leo L. Beranek: Concert hall acoustics: Recent findings . In: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 139 (2016) 4, pp. 1548–1556, doi : 10.1121 / 1.4944787 .
- ^ Gardiner Harris, Mark Landler : Obama Consoles and Challenges a Shaken Nation . In: The New York Times , July 13, 2016, p. A1.
- ↑ Opus 100 , cbfisk.com, accessed September 12, 2018.
Coordinates: 32 ° 47 '23.2 " N , 96 ° 47' 55.1" W.