But after literally hundreds of concert hall performances, Haimovitz couldn't escape one fact: he rarely saw members of his own generation in the audience.
These days, along with Jules Haimovitz, founder of Showtime and Viacom, and David Hope, former COO of Polygram TV, Beer is at it again with StarCast Auditions.
Haimovitz says that seeing punk rock fans sitting next to classical music afficionados in a smoky dive bar has awakened him to the power of music to bring people together.