A lone pianist touched the emotional core of Western sensibilities when he played John Lennon’s “Imagine” outside the Bataclan theatre in Paris, where concert-goers were murdered by Islamist gunmen last weekend.  The pianist was reportedly watching a France v Germany soccer game when the attacks began.  He said that he “just knew he had to do something.”  It was his “duty” to pay tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks.  So he drove 400 miles through the night from Konstanz, Germany to Paris. Pictures were snapped of him on his bicycle heading to the Bataclan, piano in tow, determinedly heading to the scene of the tragedy.  While playing, onlookers took videos and photographed him, ostensibly due to the heavy contrast of something so beautiful and hopeful amidst a scene that is so horrific.  People across the West wept, they cheered, and generally embraced the gravitas of that moment, exemplified in the...(Read Full Article)