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| Downloads & Listens: ****
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| Description | | Vocalist, computer and various collaborators. |
| Similar Artists | | Freres Jacques, Comedy Harmonists, A Cappella, Kings Singers... well one can aspire :-) |
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David W Solomons is honoured to be one of the first to join this excellent new website, offspring of the mp3.com TopTempo listing.
If you like what you hear here, do also please visit my Home Page:
www.dwsolo.com
and
dwsChorale
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| Information for song "The Park on Sunday" | | | | |  | A mix of a-cappella 20th century and madrigal styles with a smidgen of Lennox Berkley, Britten and who knows what else. A sultry day in Loughborough park is the inspired subject.
A new mix of this performance can be heard on the dwsChorale site | Play
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| | Song Story | Poem by my father, set to music and sung (in my studio) by me.
You can see the score (free download) in pdf format here:
Original version (AABarBB)
Transposed version for SSATB
If anyone does a concert performance I`d like to hear it.
| | Song Lyrics | 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
| | Song Statistics | | Song Serial Number: | | 156 | | Date of first upload: | | Wednesday April 6th, 2005 | | Date of last update: | | Saturday April 9th, 2005 | | Total downloads and listens: | | **** | | Total amount sold: | | $**** |
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