Northeastern University student Bonnie Liu was so intrigued by piano music coming from the atrium of Tufts Medical Center in Boston one day last summer that she went to investigate.

What she eventually found not only inspired her musically, it inspired her philanthropically — to the benefit of seniors throughout Massachusetts.

“The pianist did a variation of a variation of a variation,” says Liu, a fourth-year student studying cell and molecular biology who plans to go to dental school. “Then we started just talking about piano and he invited me to start this thing with him called MediNotes, where we would play at various sites around Boston and Central Mass. for geriatric patients.”

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