“Starting its second year in business, the Dallas City Performance Hall has become a popular venue for classical music,” writes Scott Cantrell in Tuesday’s (9/24) Dallas Morning News. “Performers, presenters and critics praise acoustics in the 750-seat auditorium, with welcoming public spaces and a helpful staff. According to the hall’s general manager, Russell Dyer, 88 of 184 dates reserved through Aug. 31, 2014 are for classical-music performances or rehearsals…. On Sunday afternoon, Southern Methodist University’s Meadows Symphony Orchestra performs works by Ravel, Falla and Einojuhani Rautavaara. After presenting two concerts last season in the new building, Chamber Music International has moved all four of its Dallas programs there this season…. A mere two dozen strings in the Dallas Chamber Symphony more than filled the sonic space last week.… The Dallas Symphony Orchestra [will inaugurate] a more casual ‘ReMix’ series there Oct. 11. There’s plenty of room on the large stage, but in all the City Performance Hall has maybe one third the cubic air space at the Meyerson Symphony Center…. Acoustician Mark Holden designed the hall to be inherently very live. With a high ceiling and randomized board-formed concrete walls, the empty auditorium has about 3 seconds’ reverberation.”
Posted September 26, 2013
