The Current23:31One daughter’s push to help her mother through music
It’s 11:20 a.m. on a Saturday morning, and 95-year-old Marjorie Taft repeats the same few words again and again.
“I just want to rest. I just want to stay in bed.”
Her daughter, Beverly, listens but wants desperately to get her mother up and to the piano. At 1 p.m., Marjorie is scheduled to play for Recollectiv, a Toronto-based music and singalong group created for musicians with memory issues.
Marjorie is the group’s pianist. It’s a role she relishes. But she also forgets — forgets that she’s been in bed for 14 hours,
