... or from Bach, Dvorak, Mozart, or Vivaldi? And so on.
But let's say Rachmaninoff because as I type this I'm listening to his Concert No. 2 in C for Piano and Orchestra, music so beautiful it can immobolize you. (Thank you Spotify.)
One moment, here comes an especially beautiful movement.
OK.
At the AALS this year the Law and Humanities Section discussed Law and Music. I regret I had to to miss it. (Sandy Levinson has written about the relationship.)
Composers must think a lot about structure and order, emphasis and repetition, pauses and rhythm. And so do lawyers, in memos and briefs. Of course composers work in sounds and lawyers in words (which do, however, have sounds).
Just beyond consciousness, as I listen, I think there must be something I can learn from great composers just as I do from great writers (fiction and non-fiction). Discovering how is the challenge.