Catherine at 90--Improv. number five ("Reverence") *EDITED VERSION*

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 as a creative outlet. Tragic as the blindness was, it forced her to improvise rather than use sheet music when playing the keyboard. I filmed several of these sessions in the days following her 90th birthday. She remarked before sitting down to play this one how she wanted to capture a "religious or spiritual feel," and the influence of traditional hymns is apparent in the chord changes. (I fantasize hearing this one arranged with strings, Vaughan Williams-style.) The previous one in this series can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awf8aIoSwCs music (c) 2009 Catherine Grasse

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Music

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• Music
• piano
• improvisation
• impressionism
• elderly
• disabled
• blind

[trew1384]

this is quite beautiful and peaceful-I like the moving section towards the end also