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. […]
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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
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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
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Music and audio © Alexander Massey 13 August 2015 BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces lead sheet) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) Happy is the one who lives in God’s house Ashrei yoshvei veitecha; od y’hal’lucha. Selah. Ashrei ha’am shekachah lo; ashrei ha’am she’adonai elohav. Happy is the one who lives in
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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‘.
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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
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Written and first performed for the Oxford Unitarians service at Harris Manchester College, Yom Hashoah 5774/2014 Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 23 January 2014 In English: In Hebrew: Essa Einai / I lift my eyes – BUY the sheet music (Eng & Heb) – $4.95 Many commentators have seen this psalm as expressing total
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On Shabbat, we mark the completion of Creation, and the establishment of God, not humanity, as the Ruler of Creation. Psalm 93 – beginning with the words Adonai malach – is one of many affirmations of this in traditional Shabbat liturgy. When we sing Psalm 93, with full voices (not half-heartedly!), especially as a call
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 5 March 2013 BUY the sheet music (solo & pno/guit) – $4.95 I am grateful to my storyteller friend Adele Moss for drawing my attention to Psalm 131, and encouraging me to spend time with it. Why was it written? What is it about? Adele’s inspired suggestion is that
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Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 14 June 2012 BUY the sheet music (solo & pno) – $4.95 BUY the sheet music (SATB & pno) – $11.25 (5 copies @ $2.25) At first glance, Psalm 87 appears to be quite disjointed, with no clear emotional or theological point to make. While a line from it
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