The Park on Sunday for wind quintet by David Warin Solomons Woodwind Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

Instrumental version of my crossover classical-swing madrigal inspired by a poem by my father S N Solomonsdescribing Loughborough park (Queen's park) on a very hot day.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 our dear old 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 our dear old Park (c) S N SolomonsIt is performed here by the Budapest Scoring Wind Quintet