There are words that you wish you’d never have to write. Because the subject matter is too painful and because of what it says about this world we are living in.

The terrorist attacks in Paris have affected each and every one of us, but to those of us for whom music is a raison d’etre, what happened at the Bataclan is the darkest of nightmares.

The idea that a concert hall, a place celebrating life and art, could turn ...