Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert's appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him.”
He spent the first part of the article talking about handedness in music instead of sports, which I have to say almost put me off from reading further.
Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller's music for a dance party, " Just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music, " says Moran.
One possible explanation is that listening to music you like stimulates the Alfa-wave in the brain, increases the heart rate and expands the breathing.