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The composer, Paul Lloyd Warner, was invited to playing music directly to Humpback Whales at sea right off the coast of Maui, Hawaii, in 1976.
A film was being made to learn if music was able to communicate with whales and if so, what would be the response.

When the day came in February 1976, a white grand piano was hoisted from the back of the truck right onto the sloop which was docked at Lahaina Wharf. The boat was named The Searunner which was about 70 feet long, with very high sails. Our gear included two stereo professional microphone, a powerful amplifyer, underwater speakers (borrowed from the Navy), movie film for two underwater divers.

The sloop set out to sea, in the direction of the Humpback Whales who were sited via binoculars from Mt. Lahaina. When we arrived near the Humpback Whales' waters, the sails came down and we hovered until we had a sighting. Suddenly a giant Humpback plunged out of the sea and flew into the air no more than 100 feet from out boat. We could see him/her look at us. The shock of a huge whale jumping out of the water was exhilarating and everyone on the boat was talking about it.

Then, just as suddenly another Whale jumped out of the ocean and studied us with his/here eye. This is called 'SPY-HOPPING" and is an obvious way for whales to come out of the ocean and gaze at a friend or foe near their waters.

Right after these two stimulating events, we lowered the loudspeakers underwater, turned on the amplifier, placed the two microphones right over the bass and middle strings of the piano - and Paul Lloyd Warner started to play.

The divers with their film cameras went underwater and Paul was playing his compositions, one after the other, for about twenty minutes. From the surface, we were not able to see what was going on underwater, but eventually they came up t the boat, got onboard and exclaimed "THIS IS AMAZING - THE WHALES ARE DOING SOMMERSAULTS UNDER THE BOAT. IT LOOKS LIKE A BALLET."

Well, were we all excited. Paul was so inspired he played many of his compositions. Then he started to play a piece that he composed expressly for this event: VISIONS OF THE WHALES. He played it with such passion and intensity, through many variations, that the music became much larger then he had ever intended.

The experience of being on a boat, playing music LIVE for whales at sea, was such a unique (and profound) one, that Paul Lloyd Warner realized he was doing something that NO ONE HAD EVER DON BEFORE and the music he composed - VISIONS OF THE WHALES - for solo piano, would one day become orchestrated as a celebration of this very moment, the greatest moment in a composer's life. THIS WAS THAT MOMENT and it is shared with you exactly as it happened.

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from MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS Solo Piano, released September 3, 1983

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