Stars rock at rehearsals
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February 27, 2011, Sunday
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THE Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles was rocking as Gwyneth Paltrow, Mandy Moore, Celine Dion and other musicians ran through the numbers they'll perform on Sunday's Academy Awards.
Moore dueted with Zachary Levi on "I See the Light," the nominated song from Disney's "Tangled," as composer and eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken backed them on piano.
Paltrow continued to show her musical side, singing "Coming Home" from her recent film "Country Strong." Oscar-winning Indian composer A.R. Rahman and British indie rocker Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine performed a haunting rendition of "If I Rise" from "127 Hours." Dion sang "Smile" as the In Memoriam packaged played on a big screen above her.
But an energetic group of 10-year-olds stole the show from all those stars.
The 64 fifth graders who make up the chorus at New York's Public School 22 on New York City's Staten Island arrived at the Kodak Theatre on Friday to rehearse their performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
They'd flown in earlier that morning, many of them on their first-ever airplane trip. Wearing green or blue T-shirts that declared them to be an alto or soprano, they filled the theater with elementary-school enthusiasm.
Guided by stage managers and their teacher, Gregg Breinberg, the students practiced getting on and off stage and memorized their spots for the night.
Moore dueted with Zachary Levi on "I See the Light," the nominated song from Disney's "Tangled," as composer and eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken backed them on piano.
Paltrow continued to show her musical side, singing "Coming Home" from her recent film "Country Strong." Oscar-winning Indian composer A.R. Rahman and British indie rocker Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine performed a haunting rendition of "If I Rise" from "127 Hours." Dion sang "Smile" as the In Memoriam packaged played on a big screen above her.
But an energetic group of 10-year-olds stole the show from all those stars.
The 64 fifth graders who make up the chorus at New York's Public School 22 on New York City's Staten Island arrived at the Kodak Theatre on Friday to rehearse their performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
They'd flown in earlier that morning, many of them on their first-ever airplane trip. Wearing green or blue T-shirts that declared them to be an alto or soprano, they filled the theater with elementary-school enthusiasm.
Guided by stage managers and their teacher, Gregg Breinberg, the students practiced getting on and off stage and memorized their spots for the night.
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