{"id":186326,"date":"2026-04-05T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:46:08","slug":"jefferson-forest-high-school-students-win-top-award-at-carnegie-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186326\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Forest High School students win top award at Carnegie Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. (WSET) \u2014 Jefferson Forest High School students recently traded Lynchburg for the bright lights of New York City.<\/p>\n

The Jefferson Forest Wind Symphony was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall on April 2 as part of the New York Invitational Music Festival.<\/p>\n

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The Jefferson Forest Wind Symphony performed at Carnegie Hall as part of the New York Invitational Music Festival. (Credit: Leigh Berkley via Chime In)<\/p>\n

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The group earned a score of 94.5 points, receiving a gold award, the highest honor of the competition.<\/p>\n

After nearly three months of intense practice, the group said the once-in-a-lifetime trip was unforgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. (WSET) \u2014 Jefferson Forest High School students recently traded Lynchburg for the bright lights of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-186326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}