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Campus News
Performing
Arts
Move over Star Academy and make room
for IC secondary school students who put
on a dazzling performance in May. Di-
rected by Randa Sabbagh, the head of the
Music Department, the spectacle showed
off many outstanding voices, various
music genres from rock to Broadway, and
even a mother-daughter duet.
The Junior Choir,
directed by music
teacher, Lydia Sabra,
gave an amazing
repertoire of songs
in April which
included English,
French, Arabic and
even a Japanese
song!
Ten students from the upper mid-
dle and secondary school partici-
pated in the festival of choirs that
took place in American School
of Muscat in March. The theme
this year was “I dream a world”
composed by Andre Thomas after
September 11.
Upon their return to IC, students
were asked to write about their own
interpretation of “I dream a world”.
Their views were touching. All re-
flected the need for a united secure
country to live in. All dreamt of a
united Lebanon.
“Standing on the choir risers,
facing the audience, I saw people
of every shape and size and colour
and race looking up at us. I saw
wildly coloured tunics, I saw shir-
weils, I saw knitted cardigans sit-
ting beside embroidered saris, and
I knew that just for that moment,
I was surrounded by the world of
which I—we—have been dream-
ing.” Thuraya Zreik Grade 9
Festival of Choirs
IC students with music teacher, Randa Sabbah, in Muscat.