The Ojai Music Festival ended with a crescendo.

The world-famous musicians that gathered this weekend brought new insights for reviewer Rita Moran.

“Music for 18 Musicians” won Reich a Grammy in 1999, and his “Double Sextet,” which kicked off Sunday’s five-hour marathon finale, earned him a Pulitzer Prize this year.

Ojai activists are hoping to launch a new form of local money as soon as this year, but no one knows yet what the currency will look like.

Nor have they agreed on what it will be called, its denomination, whether it will be printed on paper or be a plastic debit card or work off an Internet site.

“We have an amazing range of perspectives on what kind of complementary currency would work best, but we all have exactly the same goal,” said Dave Farber, an activist, philanthropist and founding member of the Ojai Economy Group, which has about a dozen members and has been meeting since March.

Chaparral High School Principal Marilyn Smith said the students graduating Wednesday came to the school for a variety of reasons, and obtained their diplomas by taking independent and adult studies classes, or going through the alternative school curriculum.