Legacy
The Oakland Symphony Orchestra was reorganized in July 1988 as the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra. Simmons has been honored by the naming of the Calvin Simmons Theatre at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, California.
His death inspired Lou Harrison to compose the Elegy, To The Memory Of Calvin Simmons, and Michael Tippett to compose The Blue Guitar, a sonata for solo guitar.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)