Arrangement & Audio © 2022 Alexander Massey The events unfolding in Ukraine since February 2022 have been horrifying. I am so sad to see the disregard for the lives and human rights of Ukrainian people, and the destruction of the country and its natural environment. It can be hard, sitting in another country, to find …
Music and audio © 2021 Alexander Massey (You can download the sheet music for free.) Galut – ‘exile’ – has been a recurring theme through Jewish history. We have been expelled from many countries over the centuries. I don’t ascribe to the idea that Jerusalem belongs exclusively to Jews any more than it does to …
YouTube version. Better recording coming soon. In the meantime, here is the sheet music (free). Music and audio © Alexander Massey 24 August 2021
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 13 June 2022
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 …
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 …
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 …
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 8 June 2020 – All Rights Reserved Two part round
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 …
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.