Music has a home here: the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, in the Arts District of downtown Dallas. This concert hall is ranked one of the world's greatest orchestra halls. Look at the careful partnership behind it: architect I. M. Pei and acoustician Russell Johnson of Artec Consultants shaped its design; structural engineering came from Leslie E. Robertson Associates.
The center opened in September 1989 after a 10-year effort led by Morton Meyerson, former president of Electronic Data Systems and former chairman and CEO of Perot Systems. In 1986 the new concert center was named in his honor at the request of Ross Perot, who made a $10 million contribution to the building fund for the naming rights. Today it is the permanent home of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Chorus, and the primary performing venue of the Dallas Wind Symphony and several other Dallas-based musical organizations.
The City of Dallas owns the Meyerson, and the Dallas Symphony Association operates it; the Association led the campaign that made the hall possible. Notice the four private suites, designed by Booziotis & Company, set aside for small concerts, meetings, and events. Notice the four private suites designed by Booziotis & Company, tucked inside this permanent home of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.