ReelFilm: Night 2

Join ReelAbilities Houston for night 2 of ReelFilm 2025 featuring the remarkable career, accomplishments, and obstacles of an extrodinary musician.

Left Alone Rhapsody: The Musical Memoir of Pianist John Bayless

Disability represented: Stroke, Paralysis, Physical Disability

Directed by: Stewart M. Schulman

At 25, Leonard Bernstein's protégé, John Bayless, debuted at Carnegie Hall, launching a 30-year-long recording career as a solo pianist, composer, and improviser. At 54, after a left-brain stroke immobilized his right side, John is determined to reinvent himself as a one-handed musician and storyteller.

PLUS! John Bayless joins us for ReelPeople on February 13.