The Elephant's Pianist
I stumbled on a series of video purely by accident, and they're fascinating. They're all from a pianist Paul Barton who has used music to deal with people therapeutically, and wondered if it would be effective with animals, as well. Before going any further, though, I think some perspective is in order to show what an accomplished musician he is, so here's a one-minute video of Paul Barton playing the Chopin Prelude #16 in a studio --
Back to the elephants. Barton contacted the Elephants World organization in Thailand and - well, rather than post his videos, I'll hold off another moment because I thought it would be best first to let hm tell about it in this video, much better than I can. (One note: while he talks about playing a piece by Beethoven, the music they show him playing is actually Debussy's Clair de Lune.)
More of these to come (they're wonderful), but this is a good way to start --
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