The Cricket Sang
The Cricket Sang was Blake’s first performed choral work and is based on a poem of the same name by Emily Dickinson. The text and music are bittersweet, meditative, and peacefully grateful.
Written for and dedicated to Blake’s high school senior class, this piece was premiered at the final choir concert of the year and performed again at the Class of 2016 commencement ceremony. The following year, the piece was recorded by the Edmonds Community College Symphonic Choir under the direction of Kirk Marcy.
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The Cricket Sang -- Emily Dickinson
The cricket sang,
And set the sun,
And workmen finished, one by one,
Their seam the day upon.
The low grass loaded with the dew,
The twilight stood as strangers do
With hat in hand, polite and new,
To stay as if, or go.
A vastness, as a neighbor, came,–
A wisdom without face or name,
A peace, as hemispheres at home,–
And so the night became.