The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Art&Seek takes you back stage and behind the scenes at the home of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

On KERA FM today, Jerome Weeks kicks off the series with a look back at the high stakes and decade-long struggle to build the hall.

Listen to the report:

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At artandseek.org/meyerson, jump into our interactive web site.  Take a video tour of the parts of the building you’ve never seen, learn about the sound,  read expanded versions of our radio stories.  You can even make the building dance – raise and lower the acoustic canopy, open and close the reverberation chamber doors.

And tune in to Think today at 1 p.m. Krys Boyd interviews Jerome and Laurie Shulman, author of  The Meyerson Symphony Center, Building a Dream.