7/9/2016 – Mystery of 101-year-old master pianist who has dementia

At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play.

“Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.”

Read the full article at New Scientist.