Marimba solo A cricket sang and set the sun by Blake Tyson

New recordings of this piece and many more can be found on Firefish: Music of Blake It s now available for digital download on iTunes and Amazon. This work takes its title from an Emily Dickinson poem that begins, The cricket sang, And set the When I read these words, I was moved by the powerful ideas they evoked. It was not just the image of a beautiful and slowly shifting sunset that struck me, but the idea that something so small could affect something so large, that a cricket s song cou