To paraphrase Leonard Bernstein in a way he certainly didn’t intend, it seemed we had decided that this would be our response to the climate crisis: to practice more intensely, more devotedly than ever before.

After a violent mugging that took a strange turn, I was left with a new imperative. I was no victim: I was a musician, among communities that were dangerously unempowered. What was I going to do about it?