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Simmons is also the namesake of the grand ballroom of the Oakland Marriott Hotel. His death inspired Lou Harrison to compose Elegy, To The Memory Of Calvin Simmons; Michael Tippett to compose The Blue Guitar, a sonata for solo guitar; and Robert Hughes to compose Sop'o muerte se cande, for high tenor and orchestra (1983, 2013).
Calvin Simmons became the orchestra's music director as of the 1979-1980 season, the first African-American conductor named to the post. Simmons served as music director until his death in 1982. [6] After Simmons' death, Leonard Slatkin became artistic consultant to the orchestra for the 1982-1983 season. The orchestra was in a financially ...
The auditorium hosted the Oakland Symphony Orchestra until 1972, and the arena was home to the Oakland Skates roller hockey team in 1996. For almost 70 years, from 1919 until 1987, the arena was home to the annual Christmas Pageant (later the Oakland Children's Holiday Pageant) involving at least 1,700 youngsters from 70 city schools.
Oakland Arena: 20,000 ... 1915 Kaiser Center for the Arts: 5,492 (Kaiser Arena) 1,500 (Calvin Simmons Theatre) October 18, 2008 Toyota Arena ... Orchestra Hall: 2,000
Calvin E. Simmons – symphony orchestra conductor, namesake of Calvin Simmons Theatre, born in San Francisco; Souls of Mischief – rap group; J. Stalin – rapper, co-founder of Livewire Records; Steady Mobb'n – rap duo; Jamie Stewart – frontman of the experimental group Xiu Xiu
President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said during an interview that some of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts could hurt “long-term American ...
The Paramount Theatre is a 3,040-seat Art Deco concert hall located at 2025 Broadway in Downtown Oakland.When it was built in 1931, it was the largest multi-purpose theater on the West Coast, seating 3,476.
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) -A federal judge said on Tuesday that parts of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI to halt its conversion to a for-profit entity might go to trial, adding that the Tesla ...