To help the makeshift orchestra members in their practice, Stephanie Merkado-Weiss, the orchestra director at Ossining High School, was asked to attend by Sarah Whitney, 27, Mrs. Whitney's daughter, who also helped organize the tribute.
Moving seamlessly between each of their makeshift orchestra members, the artists modified and amplified each lamp's electric emissions in real time.
For the past three years that the 1999 Fountain Valley High graduate has played in the tournament — held annually at the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier — he's been backed by a 10- to 15-member makeshift band that plays in the stands with all its might during his performances.
It was rainy season and a bridge across a nearby river was under water, so they travelled on makeshift boats, each family member carrying one item from home: a water bottle, a saucepan, some sheets.
It was rainy season and a bridge across a nearby river was under water, so they travelled on makeshift boats, each family member carrying one item from home: a water bottle, a saucepan, some sheets.
Inside a makeshift locker room, 18 members of the Nubian Gents put on their game faces.
Some Senate staff members hung makeshift messages of support in their office windows: "We're with you," one read.
At makeshift checkpoints local Hizbullah members and allies from Amal, Lebanon's second Shia movement, searched belongings and screened identity cards.
After sitting a while in silence, I found myself as a member of a makeshift honor guard standing next to his simple coffin.
Many orchestra members came in makeshift car pools and even on bicycles.
