Bloomberg – When hedge-fund manager Joe DiMenna was looking for a symphony to support more than a decade ago, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York caught his ear.
Founded in 1975 at Manhattan’s Church of St. Luke in the Fields, and made up of freelancers and Juilliard School alumni, it performed at Carnegie Hall with stars such as Yo-Yo Ma and Renee Fleming. Yet it had no venue to call home and was forced to practice in basements and borrowed spaces.
