Music & audio © Alexander Massey, 26 Oct 2018 BUY the sheet music – $1.95 Music’s role is often to express or explore what cannot be put into words. I wrote this nigun at a time when I found myself soul searching and questioning, and wanting to reach out to God. In turning towards God, I …
Nigun Chakartani vaTeida – Nigun meditation on Psalm 139 Read More »
Psalm 36: 8-10 – Music and audio © Alexander Massey 16 Sept 2018 Music, English lyrics & audio © Alexander Massey 16 Sept 2018 BUY the sheet music (voice & pno/guit) – $4.95 Enjoy listening! Fuller commentary / essay coming soon – in the meantime, here are some brief thoughts: I wrote this as a …
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 …
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, October 2011 BUY the sheet music (SATB & pno + soloist) – $13.50 (6 copies @ $2.25) Psalm 150 not only completes Book 5 of the Psalms (tehillim), but is the last of all the Psalms. As such, its message is particularly important as a summation – a vision …
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 21 Sept 2015 BUY the sheet music – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) Ach, tov vachesed yird’funi kol y’mei chayai; v’shavti b’veit Adonai l’orech yamim. Surely, goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life.And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever [lit. …
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 23 Oct 2016 Two part round in 10/8 (patterns of 3-3-2-2) BUY the sheet music (2 or 3 vces) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, “in prayer, words are commitments. … [P]rayer is meaningless unless we stand for what we utter, unless we feel what …
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 25 Sept 2016 BUY the sheet music (solo lead sheet) – $3.95 BUY the sheet music (2 vces & guitar chords) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) Sh’ma Adonai koli ekra; v’choneini va’aneini. Hear, O Lord, when I call with my voice, and be gracious to me, and answer …
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 13 August 2015 BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces lead sheet) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) Siddurim (prayerbooks) place the Ashrei in various different places in the sequences of morning and afternoon prayer. For me, emotionally, it feels good to open davenen (praying) with just its …
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 »
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey – 24 June 2012 BUY the sheet music (voice & pno) – $4.95 Psalm 150 not only completes Book 5 of the Psalms (tehillim), but is the last of all the Psalms. As such, its themes are particularly important as a summation – a vision – of what our …