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# SM High School Orchestra invited to Prague
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/sm-high-school-orchestra-invited-to-prague/
- Published: 2003-11-19T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:15:21.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Promenade, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The Santa Monica High School Orchestra, which has a history of awards and prizes, is headed to Prague. The group is raising funds through a variety of means.

The orchestra has been invited to perform at the Dvorak Centenary Celebration in Prague, but there is no money to send them. Students are raising the funds themselves through bake sales, silent auctions, bowl-a-thons and drawings to get to Prague next year for the 100th anniversary of the death of Anton Dvorak. They are the only American high school orchestra invited.

“On Nov. 28, we will be part of the featured entertainment for the Winterlit lighting ceremony on the Third Street Promenade that lights up all of downtown Santa Monica for the holidays,” said Joni Swenson, the Santa Monica High School orchestra director. “It will be a fundraising performance for the trip to Prague, and we will also do regular fundrais-ing performances for the next year on the Promenade and inside Santa Monica Place.”

To contact the Santa Monica High School Orchestra with performance opportunities call (310) 395-3204, Ext. 407 or write to them at 601 Pico Blvd., 90405.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 19, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/111903.pdf?ref=smdp.com)