PAUL LLOYD WARNER Composer and Performing Artist This is a true story of a woman who had breast cancer. A friend gave her a copy of Paul Lloyd Warner's MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS piano albums. After listening to the music continuously, she went into remission. | ||
OF A FORMER CANCER PATIENT
In 1990 I was fortunate to meet my future manager and best friend, A.J. Goodwin. I took him to a summer art show in the month of June in the village of Jenner, California, where the Russian River meets the Pacific Ocean. I had been exhibiting and marketing my music at this small, yet lovely art show, for several years and always looked forward to driving up the California coast and through Redwood forests to get to Jenner.
A.J. and I set up the music exhibition booth in a park just across from the ocean where the art show was being held. Shortly after the show opened at 10:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning, a middle aged woman came over to the table where the CDs and cassettes were neatly exhibited. Music was playing softly through a portable sound system. She went up to A.J., who was selling my music for the very first time. In fact, this woman was his second or third customer. The lady pointed to MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS piano cassette, The Miracle of Dolphins LP Cover, solo piano, published in 1983.put her finger on the tape exclaimed out loud: "This music saved my life!". I was busy with another customer at the far end of the table and did not hear the woman's declaration. She told A.J. that she had had breast cancer and it was a particularly bad case. Her husband and children were very worried about her future. A friend had given her MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS and there was something in the music that she could not explain, but that it gave her a desire to keep on living. She listened to the cassette continuously over a period of many months while at home in between her cancer therapy. She knew that she could not die and leave her husband and children so she put her faith in God and the music which gave her hope to continue to live.
A.J. and I set up the music exhibition booth in a park just across from the ocean where the art show was being held. Shortly after the show opened at 10:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning, a middle aged woman came over to the table where the CDs and cassettes were neatly exhibited. Music was playing softly through a portable sound system. She went up to A.J., who was selling my music for the very first time. In fact, this woman was his second or third customer. The lady pointed to MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS piano cassette, The Miracle of Dolphins LP Cover, solo piano, published in 1983.put her finger on the tape exclaimed out loud: "This music saved my life!". I was busy with another customer at the far end of the table and did not hear the woman's declaration. She told A.J. that she had had breast cancer and it was a particularly bad case. Her husband and children were very worried about her future. A friend had given her MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS and there was something in the music that she could not explain, but that it gave her a desire to keep on living. She listened to the cassette continuously over a period of many months while at home in between her cancer therapy. She knew that she could not die and leave her husband and children so she put her faith in God and the music which gave her hope to continue to live.
After awhile, she went into remission and credited the music as having saved her life. She reported that her doctors were amazed at her complete recovery.
A.J. was so excited at this woman's testimony that he called me over and asked if I had heard what the woman was saying. At this point, the lady shouted out: "Are you the pianist? Did you make this album?" I answered affirmatively. The woman then demanded that I come with her to meet her husband. She lived right up the hill above the village and pointed toward her home. She grabbed me by the hand and said, "Come, you must come with me up the hill to my house to meet my husband. Let's go now!!!"
I shrugged to A.J., resigned to my fate, grabbed some cassettes and followed the woman up the path toward her home. On the way, she just kept repeating, "You MUST meet my husband." Dutifully, I kept on walking uphill until we finally got to her home. As we entered the door, the woman shouted out: "Honey, the man who made the dolphin music is here. Honey, where are you? Come into the living room to meet the dolphin man."
Presently a man appeared with a puzzled "what's going on?" expression. His wife held my right hand, pointing to me with her other hand, and kept on shouting animatedly: "Honey, this is the man who made the dolphin music, you know that piano music I listened to all the time." Unclutching my hand, she ran over to her cassette player and picked up THE MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS, showing it to me, speaking with such excitement: "This is the music that saved my life."
The husband came over to me and confirmed that his wife listened to the music non-stop during the many months of her therapy. At some point, she miraculously went into remission and her cancer completely disappeared.
I then asked them both why are they crediting the music as having healed the cancer. Wouldn't her cancer therapy eliminate the tumors? Their response was interesting. The cancer did not metastasize, her breasts were not surgically removed and she did not suffer extreme ill effects from the medicine. They both insisted that it was MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS that got the patient through this ordeal and they knew it in their hearts.
Both thanked me profusely, the woman asked me to sign her cassette. I gave her a fresh one and some other piano albums that I had carried up in my pockets. We hugged goodbye, with several enthusiastic wet kisses on my cheeks from this very grateful and lovely lady.
As I walked down the hill back to the park and the art show, I felt so deeply about this experience, knowing it was the second time in my life where I had heard spontaneously of complete remission from cancer.
When I returned to my exhibition booth, A.J. smiled at me, knowing that he experienced a miraculous event on the very first day of selling my music. A.J. was mightily impressed. That auspicious experience instantly cemented our professional relationship and friendship which continues to this day.
Paul Lloyd Warner
A.J. was so excited at this woman's testimony that he called me over and asked if I had heard what the woman was saying. At this point, the lady shouted out: "Are you the pianist? Did you make this album?" I answered affirmatively. The woman then demanded that I come with her to meet her husband. She lived right up the hill above the village and pointed toward her home. She grabbed me by the hand and said, "Come, you must come with me up the hill to my house to meet my husband. Let's go now!!!"
I shrugged to A.J., resigned to my fate, grabbed some cassettes and followed the woman up the path toward her home. On the way, she just kept repeating, "You MUST meet my husband." Dutifully, I kept on walking uphill until we finally got to her home. As we entered the door, the woman shouted out: "Honey, the man who made the dolphin music is here. Honey, where are you? Come into the living room to meet the dolphin man."
Presently a man appeared with a puzzled "what's going on?" expression. His wife held my right hand, pointing to me with her other hand, and kept on shouting animatedly: "Honey, this is the man who made the dolphin music, you know that piano music I listened to all the time." Unclutching my hand, she ran over to her cassette player and picked up THE MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS, showing it to me, speaking with such excitement: "This is the music that saved my life."
The husband came over to me and confirmed that his wife listened to the music non-stop during the many months of her therapy. At some point, she miraculously went into remission and her cancer completely disappeared.
I then asked them both why are they crediting the music as having healed the cancer. Wouldn't her cancer therapy eliminate the tumors? Their response was interesting. The cancer did not metastasize, her breasts were not surgically removed and she did not suffer extreme ill effects from the medicine. They both insisted that it was MIRACLE OF DOLPHINS that got the patient through this ordeal and they knew it in their hearts.
Both thanked me profusely, the woman asked me to sign her cassette. I gave her a fresh one and some other piano albums that I had carried up in my pockets. We hugged goodbye, with several enthusiastic wet kisses on my cheeks from this very grateful and lovely lady.
As I walked down the hill back to the park and the art show, I felt so deeply about this experience, knowing it was the second time in my life where I had heard spontaneously of complete remission from cancer.
When I returned to my exhibition booth, A.J. smiled at me, knowing that he experienced a miraculous event on the very first day of selling my music. A.J. was mightily impressed. That auspicious experience instantly cemented our professional relationship and friendship which continues to this day.
Paul Lloyd Warner
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