
A British neurologist and author, who played the piano.
[…] I went to a concert in Carnegie Hall. The program included Mozart’s great mass in C Minor and, after the interval, his Requiem. […] I had a notebook on my lap and was writing nonstop throughout the concert […] Ralph [Crick] was curious—what had I been writing about through the entire concert? Had I been wholly unconscious of the music? No, I said, I was conscious of the music, and not just as background. I quoted Nietzsche, who used to write at concerts, too; he loved Bizet and once wrote, 'Bizet makes me a better philosopher.' I said I felt that Mozart made me a better neurologist […]