TITLE

Music man

PUB. DATE

May 1993

SOURCE

New Yorker;5/17/93, Vol. 69 Issue 13, p35

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Profiles Norio Ohga, Sony's president, chief executive officer and visionary who is preparing for his New York conducting debut. Responsibility for term `software' in music and movies; Studying engineering and music; Conducting members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Schubert's `Unfinished' Symphony, to benefit the Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund on May 12, 1993; Comments from Ohga.

ACCESSION #

9305130066

Tags: OHGA, Norio

 

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