[Maigrey]

It's supposed to be a touchyfeely piece. It's called Filler (or also fluff) because it's not really newsworthy, but as a human interest piece, it makes the news, somewhere in the middle folds.

(Now as the devil's advocate...)
Maybe she loved music as a child, and was working on it in school, then endured the attack. She was miserable, and about to revert to room temperature. She then saw that movie, and realized that even deaf people can succeed.

(Notice how far I'm grasping at straws here.....)

[EggsAckley]

Willis said she no longer imagines sound as she did when she could hear. "I have no memory for sound," she said.

This is the flaw in your premise. Had she had ANY interest in music, she would remember it. Beethoven certainly did. Anyone schooled in music is able to compose a melody and write it down, without hearing a note of it.