Pianist Anton Kuerti, activist in many areas, became involved with Greenpeace's Save the Whales campaign in the early 1980s. He asked Morawetz if he could write a short piano composition for the book Whales: A Celebration, which contained tributes to whales in many different art forms: stories and poems, illustrations and paintings, as well as musical scores. The book was published in 1983 by Prentice-Hall Canada. Kuerti premièred the piece in the Toronto Glenn Gould Auditorium in 1993, and then a few months later at the Parry Sound Festival of the Sound which he founded in 1980.

Anton Kuerti, 1974

Kristine Bogyo, Anton Kuerti and their son Julien at their cottage in Parry Sound, 1977

Anton Kuerti and Morawetz, 1982