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Tribune captions on the back: March 27, 1077: "Percussion, brass, woodwinds of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra: Sounding out some big changes." September 10, 1980, "The Oakland Symphony and Leontyne Price, upper right." August 24, 1982, "Oakland Symphony must replace Simmons and struggle with other problems as well." October 3, 1982, "Kazuyoshi Akiyama condust the Oakland Symphony in two Paramount Theatre concerts." April 19, 1983, "The Season For Condustors, Oakland Symphony unveils 1983-84 plans which include having a new conductor by the end of the season." Photo shows the horn section of the symphony during a performance. In the foreground is the drum player.