Simon Bolivar Youth Symphonic Band Simon Bolivar Youth Symphonic Band The Simon Bolivar Youth Symphonic Band (SBYSB) () is the principal wind band of El Sistema, is a band based in Caracas, Venezuela. Since 2008, its principal conductor has been Sergio Rosales. The Simon Bolivar Youth Symphonic Band was founded in 2005 by the general director of the Simon Bolivar Music Conservatory, Valdemar Rodríguez, and Jesús Ignacio Perez Perazzo. The SBYSB is made up of students of the Simón Bolívar Music Conservatory and is part of the Academic Program of the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela. The SBYSB has
USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) the Rota SSBN site. Departing the site then diving, the ship headed southeasterly for passage through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. She then went to alert status for her 24th deterrent patrol. Following completion of the patrol, the ship traveled westward across the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar and into the Atlantic. Seventy four days after departing Rota and submerging, "Simon Bolivar" surfaced off the US east coast in October 1974. "Simon Bolivar" had now been assigned to the Charleston refit site and was again part of Submarine Squadron 18. Submarine tender provided refit and re-supply