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 could transform day into night. ![]() Alabama State University Percussion Professor Jessica Williams stops by to talk about her current gig teaching at her alma mater, working on her doctorate and working as a caregiver (2:20), growing up in Jackson, TN, and her high school percussion experiences (29:15), doing her undergrad at Alabama State and her HBCU show-style drumming experience (47:30), her master’s at the University of Florida and working with Bill Shaltis at the University of Memphis (01:12:30), and takes some time for the Random Ass Questions (01:36:15).įinishing with a Rave on exercise and activity in these pandemic times (02:01:30). Smith performed two short pieces on marimba (A Cricket Sang and Set the Sun by Blake Tyson, and the Prélude from Bachs Cello Suite No. A Cricket Sang and Set the Sun - song by Blake Tyson, Tobias Messerschmidt Spotify Listen to A Cricket Sang and Set the Sun on Spotify. Lost Mountain Sunrise and A Cricket Sang and Set the Sun by Blake Tyson Two Mexican Dances by Gordon Stout Marimba Concerto Suite by Ney Rosauro (a compilation of themes from the first marimba concerto, no accompanist needed) October Night by Michael Burritt 2 Mallet Suggestions: Transcriptions of works for the African gyil by Valerie Naranjo. This work takes its title from an Emily Dickinson poem that begins, 'The cricket sang And set the sun.' When I read these words, I was moved by the powerful ideas they evoked.
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