A Piano Recital Opens the Meyerson Season

Lang Lang returns to the Dallas stage with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a program built as a journey through European repertoire. The pianist has spent three decades bringing large concert hall audiences to this music, and the collaboration puts him in front of a full orchestra rather than alone. Programming moves across national traditions within one evening. The Meyerson was designed around unamplified sound, and a piano carries here without help, which is the reason artists keep returning. Expect an intermission mid program.

The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center sits at 2301 Flora Street with a curved glass lobby and a shoebox concert room behind it. Ushers seat by section, and the terrace seats behind the orchestra put you above the keyboard. Adjustable concrete reverberation chambers ring the hall and get tuned to the repertoire. Seats above and behind the piano show the hands, which the main floor never does, a trade worth weighing. Bars open in the lobby before the performance.

The concert starts at half past seven on Tuesday evening, September 15, in the Dallas Arts District. Underground parking sits beneath the hall on Flora Street, and the Pearl and Arts District station is a short walk. Latecomers wait in the lobby until a break between movements rather than mid piece, which makes the seven fifteen arrival worth it. It fits anyone who wants orchestral repertoire in a hall built for it. Ticketing runs through the Dallas Symphony site rather than at the door.