Honor music students in Southeast Alaska combine solo recordings in lieu of in-person festival Posted by Angela Denning | Jan 27, 2021 Screen shot of the virtual Southeast Alaska Honors Music Festival. The video shows 56 honors band students performing, “Rushmore” by Alfred Reed. Many high school music students in Southeast Alaska cannot practice or perform together this year due to COVID protocols. Some music classes, which are normally large in size, have been canceled altogether. But that hasn’t stopped the annual Southeast Honor Music Festival from taking some shape. Instead of meeting in person, virtual band and choir performances were created for the first time.