A year ago today, a terrorist killed 22 people with a bomb as they were leaving an ARIANA GRANDE concert at MANCHESTER ARENA. They'll be remembered today with both music and silence. BRITAIN will observe a national moment of silence at 2:30 pm local time. Five hours later, 3,500 choir singers will gather for a singalong vigil in Manchester's Albert Square. We mourn and we move on. We remember and we resist. We stop singing, but only for a minute. There may be no stronger response to darkness and terror than to sing and dance in its face, to shout it down in harmony, to continue making the music that terrorists seem to be so terrified of. "This is the third time in three years I've had the awful opportunity to write about mass killings at a concert or music club," I wrote in this newsletter a year ago tomorrow. Opportunity number four came five months later, in LAS VEGAS. The very fact that singers continue to sing, even louder than before, and that fans continue to gather to hear them, fear be damned, is the light that shines through this never-ending tunnel. We do not show fear, because, by and large, we do not feel it. Music, like life, is bigger than that... Ariana Grande's first reaction when her manager, SCOOTER BRAUN, asked her to play a benefit concert in a football stadium a few miles from where the bombing happened, was: No way. "I can never sing these songs again," she told him. Two days later, she texted him 16 times and said, "If I don’t do something, these people died in vain." She was 23 at the time. She's still processing the moment a year later, and says that part will probably never stop. Her upcoming fourth album is called SWEETENER because, "When you’re handed a challenge, instead of sitting there and complaining about it, why not try to make something beautiful?” MusicSET: "The Meaning of Ariana Grande"... Pro/con: LAWRENCE LESSIG on the CLASSICS Act. DAVID C. LOWERY on Lawrence Lessig on the CLASSICS Act... SONY buys out nearly all of EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING... MADDIE POPPE wins AMERICAN IDOL... Movie trailer: JOHNNY DEPP on the trail of NOTORIOUS B.I.G.'s killer in CITY OF LIES.