The Park on Sunday (David Solomons)

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• CPDL #11914:

Editor: [[User:|]] (added 2006-06-18).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 271 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Based on a poem by Stanley N Solomons (the composer's father), with permission, SSATB version

• CPDL #11913:

Editor: [[User:|]] (added 2006-06-22).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 271 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Based on a poem by Stanley N Solomons (the composer's father), with permission. AABBB version

General Information

Title: The Park on Sunday
Composer: David Solomons

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsongs
Language: English
Instruments:
Published: 2005

Description: The score of the AABarBB version and an mp3 of a performance by the composer are available on the following external site

External websites: http://www.toptempo.com/song/song_0000156.html

Original text and translations

English text
The Park on Sunday
- poem by S N Solomons

The air is heavy this afternoon,
Weighs heavily upon the mind
And the heat, semi translucent,
Presses against the slate blue sky,

Tactile as a membrane,
Bulging like cling film over
The pulsing microwave
Of Loughborough Park.

And Time is slow and viscous.

And scattered haphazard
On the path and grass,
Objects, people, and colours
Have a surreal identity.

The grass is greener,
Sounds more strident,
People perfect samples,
Everything in your face.

And Time is slow and viscous

Little old ladies
With short white curly hair
Take short light genteel steps
Into their Third Age.

Old gaffers with shiny pates,
Moustache akimbo,
And spine welded stiff,
Recalling how they used to march
In their lost past.

And Time is slow and viscous

Families spread untidily
And ungainly upon the grass,
With fat pink ideal babies
Squirming and cooing.
And fat pink young mothers,
Posing and dozing.

Floating and flirting girls,
Golf ball muscled boyos
Showing off to them,
Showing off their talents
To the talent.

And Time is slow and viscous
In Loughborough Park