Nigun Galut (‘Exile’)
Music and audio © Alexander Massey Recording coming soon. In the meantime, here is the sheet music (free).
Interfaith
Baruch Atah, B’ruchah At (Blessed Shall You Be)
YouTube version. Better recording coming soon. In the meantime, here is the sheet music (free). Music and audio © Alexander Massey 24 August 2021
Eilu V’Eilu
3-part round Music and audio © Alexander Massey 10 June 2021 Recording coming soon. In the meantime, here is the sheet music (free).
Interfaith Jewish music
Jewish texts offer rich opportunities for interfaith thinking, dialogue and encounters. Many Jewish prayer texts and Biblical verses, including the psalms, speak to universal human experience and spiritual yearning. Some are part of our regular liturgy; it is interesting to note how many could fit an interfaith context. Some Jewish texts specifically affirm inclusivity and …
B’makom She’ein Anashim
Composition & recording © Alexander Massey 6 Feb 2021 – All Rights Reserved Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) 2:5 “In a place where there is no humanity, strive to be human.” [Interpretive translation] If this song encourages people to look into the darkness, and gives a sense of the bleakness when there is an …
Nigun Yom HaShoah
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 15 March 2021 Genesis lists 70 descendants of Noah after the crisis of the Great Flood, and from this, Jewish tradition has it that there are 70 nations of the world, and that we all come from one family. This nigun has 70 notes. We, the Jewish people, are one …
Oseh Shalom No.3 (in 5)
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 8 June 2020 – All Rights Reserved Two part round
Shalom, Shalom (Isaiah 57:19)
Music, English lyrics and recording © Alexander Massey 2020 – All Rights Reserved BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) $3.95 “Peace, peace, when you are far,However close you are.”So speaks Havayah. “Who is Havayah?” you might ask. This is a word that, in more recent times, some people have chosen to say when they have in …
Shalom Aleichem, Aleichem Shalom
Music and recording © Alexander Massey 26 March 2017 Composed for the ‘United for Peace – United Through Poetry’ event 10 May 2017, an initative of The Oxford Foundation delivered in partnership with the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Birmingham.
Shiru Ladonai Shir Chadash (Ps 96)
(6 July 2019 – Recording coming soon.) BUY the sheet music – $3.95 (lead sheet) In Jewish scripture and liturgy we are often encouraged to ‘sing to the Lord a new song’. How many times can we sing a song before it’s no longer new? What happens then? If we like a song, and it …