ON THE AIR ARTISTRY YOUNG VIOLINISTS TO APPEAR ON PRIME-TIME TELEVISION SHOW.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer AGOURA HILLS - A half-dozen young musicians from Lindero Canyon Middle School Lindero Canyon Middle School is a public middle school in suburban Agoura Hills, California. It is located west of Morrison Ranch district and north of Lake Lindero. It serves the entire city of Agoura Hills and is one of three middle schools of the Las Virgenes Unified School have fiddled their way onto prime-time television, with a coming appearance on a new CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. comedy series. The six students will be featured in a dream sequence on ``Kate Brasher,'' earning $150 for the five hours it took to film a two-minute scene of them playing their violins and making funny faces. ``It's my first time on TV, and I'm really excited,'' said Alex Chai, 12, of Agoura Hills. ``My grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl are going to watch it, and I told everybody that I know.'' The show stars Mary Stuart Masterson This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (``Fried Green Tomatoes''), Rhea rhea, in zoology rhea (rē`ə), common name for a South American bird of the family Rheidae, which is related to the ostrich. Weighing from 44 to 55 lb (20–25 kg) and standing up to 60 in. Pearlman (``Cheers'') and Hector Elizondo (``Chicago Hope'') and airs at 9 p.m. Saturdays. The youngsters have not yet been told when their episode will be broadcast. ``It was really fun,'' said Erika Ishii, 14. ``It was a great experience.'' Also appearing in the show are students Alex Cole Alexander Cole Jr. (born August 17, 1965, in Fayetteville, North Carolina) was a Major League Baseball outfielder. Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round of the 1985 MLB amateur draft, Cole would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Cleveland Indians on , Andrea Escobar, Sherman Ng and Emily Wachtel, all members of the Fiddlers Philharmonic, an ensemble directed by Greg Fried. Students were selected because they best fit the role of youngsters 8 to 10 years old. ``My friends and I joke about how short we are,'' said Erika, who is 4 feet 11 inches. ``But this time it really did come in handy Verb 1. come in handy - be useful for a certain purpose be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" .'' While the students are all expected to be visible in the two-minute scene, it is their music - a waltz - that will be the star. ``It will definitely be the children's music that we'll be hearing,'' said Carolyn Abe-Ishii, Erika's mother. ``They are playing while the scene was shot, and they also recorded it afterwards.'' Before students were allowed to appear in the show, they had to acquire work permits, Alex said. And work it was. ``It was hard,'' he said. ``They didn't need us for much of the time, but they made us stand up. If the camera got too close we had to do it again. We did it a lot of times.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Lindero Canyon Middle School student violinist Erika Ishii, 14, will appear with five other young musicians in a dream scene for the new CBS comedy television show ``Kate Brasher.'' Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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