After working as assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, Simmons became musical director of the Oakland Symphony. He was the first African-American to be named conductor of a major U.S. symphony orchestra. He died in a canoeing accident at thirty-two.
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