David Lang, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Elias Lugo-Fagundo, Steven P Rowe
J Am Coll Radiol . 2023 Sep 4:S1546-1440(23)00699-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2023.08.033. Online ahead of print.
There was always music playing at my house. My mother was a child prodigy on the piano, and my sister became a world-class harpist. I would hear my mother play at night, but when I would ask her the next day what she was playing, she would tell me she was just improvising while she was thinking about all of the things she had to do. Her artistry and creativity flowed out through her fingertips. My father was also drawn to music, specifically jazz, and he played the vibraphone. However, he was more “paint by numbers” and technical, lacking my mother’s intuition. My father would focus on the science of music, whereas the rest of the family was more instinctive.