The Graduate

David Grusin is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous... awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy award and 12 Grammys. He has had a prolific recording career as an artist, arranger, producer and executive producer. Born in Littleton, Colorado, he studied music at the University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded his bachelor's degree in 1956. He produced his first single, Subways are for Sleeping in 1962 and composed the score to his first Feature film, Divorce American Style five years later. Other scores followed including 'Winning in 1969 , The Friends of Eddie Coyle , The Midnight Man and Three Days of the Condor in 1975. In the late 70s, he formed GRP records along with his partner, Larry Rosen, and began to create some of the first commercial digital recordings. Grusin was also at the forefront of soundtrack albums. He was the composer for the legendary Mike Nichols Oscar-winning film, The Graduate. The film is noted for being one of the first films to integrate popular songs into a film score.
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The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge is a pair of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay of California, in the United States. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road route between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries approximately 270,000 vehicles per day on its two decks. It has... one of the longest spans in the world. The toll bridge was conceived as early as the gold rush days, but construction did not begin until 1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, six months before the Golden Gate Bridge. It originally carried automobile traffic on its upper deck, and trucks and trains on the lower, but after the closure of the Key System, the lower deck was converted to road traffic as well. The bridge was closed on October 27, 2009 due to failure of part of the recently-repaired eastern span. It reopened on November 2, 2009. In 1986, the bridge was unofficially dedicated to James B. Rolph. The bridge consists of two major crossings connecting each shore with Yerba Buena Island, a natural outcropping located mid-bay.
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The University of California, Berkeley , is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, USA. The university occupies 6,651 acres on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay with the central campus resting on approximately 200 acres . Berkeley offers approximately 300... undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. Established in 1868 as the result of merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, Berkeley is the oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California . Berkeley has been charged with providing both "classical" and "practical" education for the state's people and is generally considered to be the flagship institution in the University of California system. Berkeley co-manages three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.
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