![]() ![]() ![]() Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. Hawley says she’s “totally shocked” at the overwhelming response to the performance led by Robert Filion, choir director at De La Salle high school. That response has included an outpouring of positive online commentary and emailed requests from around the world to purchase the music. She’s also puzzled about why the song is being touted as a welcome to the thousands of Syrian refugees being brought to Canada by the Liberal government (a tweet from Justin Trudeau congratulating De La Salle high school on the performance doubtless urged along the misapprehension). ![]() I am the first author in Sri Lanka to write a middle grade detective book - an experience out of this world for your kids. Tala’al-badru ‘alayna Min thaniyyat il-wada’ Wajaba al-shukru ‘alayna Ma da’a lillahi da’ Ayyuha al-mab’uthu fina Ji’ta bi-al-amri al-muta’ Ji’ta sharrafta al-madinah Marhaban ya khayra da’ Wada vin Mazhaigalil irundhu, Muzhu Nilavu, Yengal mun Udhika Iraivan idam Nandrikal pala solli, Thoodarae ungalai vara-vaerkae. “I had been commissioned over a year ago (by Filion) to compose this piece for the children’s choir festival,” she says – long before the plight of Syrian refugees made headline news. I am the author of the book series The School Detective Gang I hold an advanced level certificate in music from Trinity College London. The festival in the past had included music from Germany, Haiti and elsewhere and Filion asked her to incorporate something from the Muslim tradition as well as a French component.
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