Santa Monica High Wins Music Honors

Santa Monica High School, representing the United States, took third place at an international youth music competition in Vienna, it was announced Thursday.

The 85-member symphony orchestra and the school’s smaller chamber orchestra won honors for selections such as Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture,” Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 2 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.

Santa Monica was the only public high school from this country invited to the 21st Annual International Youth and Music Festival, which was sponsored by the Assn. for International Cultural Exchange.