Drum Taps - 3. Long, too Long, America

2017 composer Phil Roberts
Performed at Werner Recital Hall, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. A set of songs on Walt Whitman's poems about the Civil War.
Long, too long, America,
Traveling roads all peaceful, you learn'd from joys and
prosperity;
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish,
advancing, grappling with direst fate, and recoiling not;
And now to conceive, and show to the world, what your
children really are.
-Walt Whitman, from "Drum Taps"
Stephen Hanna, baritone
Phil Roberts, piano
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