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Merry Christmas, Here's an Elephant Rocking Out to "What Child Is This?"
The above footage comes from the documentary Music for Elephants,
which aired last night on Australian television. I will neither confirm
nor deny weeping through most of the doc's 45 minute running time, as
formerly abused elephant after formerly abused elephant ambled onto the
screen and responded to the musical stylings of artist Paul Barton. On
the various sanctuaries in Thailand that Barton visited, some elephants
stopped in their tracks and stood completely still as they listened to
Barton's piano playing near where they ate and/or bathed. Some moved
rhythmically (elephants, it turns out, have a terrific sense of rhythm).
Some joined in and played along with Barton.
Barton's
end game is to bring joy into the lives of these emotionally complex
creatures whose lives previously contained little of it (many of them on
the Elephants World sanctuary once worked as logging elephants and have been blinded from the twigs they encountered on the job).
"I hope
that the elephants might see us humans in a slightly better way than we
deserve to be seen considering the lives these elephants have had," said
Barton during the documentary's final and most surreal scene, in which
he played Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" in the dark for a lone
elephant.
I most certainly didn't get teary eyed either.
That
elephant has way better rhythm than my dad. Also, I didn't know this
whole sanctuary existed, and it is probably the best thing that does.
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