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‘Across the Universe’: WHS alumnus comes from L.A. to hear school concert finale he composed

December 12, 2023

A former Woodstock High School music student flew across the country to see students perform his original composition at the high school’s “Across the Universe” collage concert. Alex Riak, an […]

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