Dinner at the Potomac

“Dinner at the Potomac” captures one of the quietest turning points in Hamilton: Letters from a New Republic — a nation shaped not in chambers or crowds, but at a table, over bread and borrowed light.

Set during the Compromise of 1790, the song unfolds as rival visions meet in private: North and South, debt and capital, principle and necessity. What history later records as policy begins here as negotiation — hesitant hands, lowered voices, and agreements that cost as much as they create.

The piece refuses triumph. Every gain carries loss. Every promise binds the future more tightly than the men who make it. By the final measures, the music leaves Hamilton alone with the papers, confronting the weight of what has been traded.

“Dinner at the Potomac” is a meditation on compromise — not as celebration, but as the sober price of holding a country together.

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