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# Josh Groban After 9/11•
- URL: https://tombeaverbooks.ghost.io/josh-groban/
- Published: 2026-10-05T20:19:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T01:22:14.000Z
- Author: Tom Beaver
- Tags: Book: Movies And TV, #Import 2026-10-09 17:51

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This \[a video I posted\] is Josh Groban performing one of my favorite songs, *Cinema Paradiso* (from the movie of that same name). I believe this is from his concert at Madison Square Garden just two months after 9/11\. 

I remember watching that concert on TV and how it made me feel. I thought, “What the F is wrong with those people?” I meant the people who had come here and blown up our people. blown up our peace, blown a burning sinkhole in civilization. I was hearing this transcendent music, hearing a voice so beautiful I don’t have words for it. So beautiful it was being broadcast around the world: one young man on a stage.  
  
One singer briefly creating a kind of global climate change. 

It was the first time, following that day, that I felt sweetness again. But the thoughts it gave me only partly sweet. “Why can’t we all be creating and loving things like this?” I thought, meaning the music, meaning the grace of something so indisputably good. “This is possible, and we’re blowing up buildings full of people? Crashing airplanes on purpose? What the F is wrong with us? How the F’ing stupid can a species be?” 

I guess is was my PTSD breaking like a fever. I had watched burning and collapse, had watched a mile of people trooping through my community with stunned faces, with ash in their hair. I had been feeling for two months that any day could be the one a suitcase nuke evaporated eight million people and a million treasures. I hadn't felt joy for months. 

Then that voice. That one young person projecting megatons of grace into the atmosphere. That wave of goodness crossing oceans.

It was a kind of turning point. I got back to believing the world could eventually resume getting better, no matter how quickly it was getting worse in the short term *\~ Sept. 4, 2021*