How and Why I’m Listening to Classical Music: A Micro-Essay

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I long ago studied great contemporary writers. I remember one (Joan Didion?) commenting that she only listens to classical music, at least when she’s in her creative stages. She said something along the lines that it helps with rhythm and flow in her prose.

At the end of The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist noted that music is the province of the right…