Catherine at 90--Improv number seven ("Under the Falls")

Due to a medical mistake, my mother, Catherine Grasse, went blind at 88. No longer able to paint, she fell back on her piano playing for her creative outlet. Tragic as the blindness was, it forced her to improvise rather than use sheet music when playing the keyboard. This is a short snippet of her improvising several days after her 90th birthday--which I filmed unbeknownst to her.

The previous clip in this series can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk1Hf_eIdzA

music (c) 2009 Catherine Grasse

The previous piece in this series can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk1Hf_eIdzA

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Music
• piano
• impressionism
• debussy
• blindness
• disabled
• elderly
• improvisation