sentences:  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).John Harbison wrote "Exequien for Calvin Simmons".Simmons conducted Harbison's Violin Concerto shortly before his death.