Wong, a choral conductor, music educator, vocalist, and pianist now based in Canada, originally wrote the arrangement for the Hamilton Children’s Choir, who debuted the hauntingly beautiful composition. “She was teaching music from her homeland in several workshops at the festival. “We were at a festival for Children’s Choirs ( Europa Cantat Junior in Lyon, France) where this song was taught by the Malaysian/Canadian composer Tracy Wong,” Sykora said in a message. So, Coconuts KL reached out to Caloroso’s artistic director, Inge Sykora, who shed some light on how dikir barat made it all the way from Kelantan to Antwerp. We were particularly intrigued as to how the somewhat obscure and very Malaysian art form could have traveled across Asia and Europe, and landed on the international stage - being performed by foreigners, no less. Despite being well over a year old, the clip has only recently begun making the rounds, and was picked up today by Malay-language daily Sinar Harian.
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