Give the city of Dallas credit for ...

Give the city of Dallas credit for thinking big. From the beginning its Morton H. Meyerson consonance Center was intended to be a cultural lightning cudgel bringing the city an instant shake of international recognition. In with equal reason doing, "the Mort" was also intended to be something of a modern-day miracle an orchestra hall whose acoustics would rival those of Europe's principally venerable concert chambers. But beset, as it was, by means of delays, conflicts and eleventh-hour changes, it is more wondrous that the Dallas consonance Orchestra's new home stands at all.

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