Mongkol – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:12:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/beethoven-moonlight-sonata/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/beethoven-moonlight-sonata/#comments Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:01:37 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=63702 An evening pause: Here what counts is the audience. From the youtube webpage:

Mongkol is a 61-year-old former logging elephant. His captive-held life was spent hauling trees in the Thai forest. His body shape is deformed through hard labor, he lost his right eye and tusk in this brutal logging practice. Mongkol was rescued and brought to Elephants World to spend the rest of his days relaxing peacefully in freedom by the River Kwai. I discovered Mongkol is an extremely gentle, sensitive elephant who enjoys music, especially this slow movement by Beethoven which I play to him occasionally in the day and night.

I think he listens with as much rapt pleasure as anyone who loves Beethoven.

Hat tip Tom Biggar.

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