Music and recording © Alexander Massey 13 Sept 2020 – All Rights Reserved BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) $3.95 (Note: I have also written a two part round setting of the final verse of Ps 23, which you can find here.) 1 Yah is my shepherd; I lack nothing. [Chorus] 2 Yah makes me […]
Adonai Roi (Psalm 23) Read More »
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 11 April 2018 Jer. 31:15; Gen. 4:10; Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:1 (22a) BUY the sheet music (voice & pno) – $4.95 On Yom HaShoah v’HaGevurah, we commemorate both the victims of the Holocaust, and those who heroically resisted. This piece was written to honour those people. The three Jewish
Kol B’Ramah, Kol D’mei Read More »
In Hebrew In English – ‘Rise up, my love, my fair one’ Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 9 Dec 2015 This recording and a version of this article were published on Ritual Well (USA) as ‘Arise, my love‘. English duet version (a recording with women’s voices is coming soon!) Hebrew duet version (a recording with
Kumi Lach Rayati / Rise Up, My Love Read More »
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 16 Feb 2017: V’asu li mikdash v’shochanti b’tocham. Recording with English words: “We’ll make You a holy home, and You will live with us.” BUY the sheet music (2 vces & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) The sheet music is also available for purchase as part of
V’asu Li Mikdash and the ‘holiness project’ Read More »
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 10 Feb 2015 BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) – $3.95 For commentary about the text and symbolism of Adon Olam, click here.
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 5 Dec 2015 BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) $3.95 Much could be (and has been) written about the Kaddish (to which I have put links below). Although one version is referred to as mourner’s kaddish, it is part of our daily prayers, and comes, in some form, in
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 13 August 2015 BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces & pno/guit) – $4.95 The sheet music is also available as part of ‘Five Sacred Chants’. ןְטַהֵר לִבֵּנוּ לְעָבְדְּךָ בְּאֶמֶת V’taheir libeinu, l’ovd’cha b’emet. “Purify our hearts, that we may serve You in truth.” When, in the morning,
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 12 Dec 2015. An earlier recording and a version of this article and song were pubished on Ritual Well (USA), June 2016. BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces lead sheet) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) Transliteration of lyrics: B’ruchah haba’ah b’sheim Havayah. Mi zot hanish’kafah k’mo-shachar
B’ruchah Haba’ah – ‘Blessed Is She’ Read More »
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 9 Dec 2015 BUY the sheet music (voice, guitar chords, optional flute part) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) – $3.95 This recording and a version of this article were published on Ritual Well (USA) as ‘You have ravished my heart, my sister‘.
Libavtini achoti chalah – ‘You have ravished my heart, my sister’ Read More »
Music, English lyrics and Recording © Alexander Massey, Aug 2014. Hebrew words (Trad.) Dedicated to my Rabbi, Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi (ztz”l), completed during shloshim. These three Hebrew lines from the evening blessing express our yearning for God’s protection – day and night – and throughout our lives. I think they can also be a prayer for the