“It’s Quiet Uptown” is one of the slower, more contemplative moments i

“It’s Quiet Uptown” is one of the slower, more contemplative moments in Hamilton’s second act, when Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton mourn their eldest son Philip, killed in a duel. “I spend hours in the garden,” Hamilton sings, “I walk alone to the store. And it’s quiet uptown, I never liked the quiet before.” The bucolic estate Hamilton described—he named it “the Grange,” after his ancestral Scottish home—still stands, though it’s a little less peaceful than it was in 1802.

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