Over a number of years, some new musical settings of High Holy Days prayers have been gradually introduced in the services for the Oxford Progressive Jewish congregation. In September 2020, I wrote some more new settings, in time for Zoom services. From this page, you can listen to some of that music. Enjoy! New for 5781 …
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 13 Sept 2020 – All Rights Reserved BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) $3.95 1 Yah is my shepherd; I lack nothing. [Chorus] 2 Yah makes me lie down in green pastures; Yah leads me to water in places of repose; 3 Yah renews my life; Yah guides …
Music and recording © Alexander Massey 12 Sept 2020 – All Rights Reserved BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) $3.95 “Let the heavens rejoice and the earth exult; let the sea and all within it thunder.” Psalm 96:11 is such a joyous text, it needs music that will get people clapping, stamping and raising the …
Adonai Adonai (Ex 34:6-7) – the 13 attributes of mercy Ana Eil Na / Please Bring Healing (Num 12:13) – “Please bring healing to body and soul; God, who blessed in times of old, make us whole.” Ashrei Yoshvei (Ps 84:5) – “Happy are they who dwell in Your house; they praise You forever.” Elohai …
Music and recording © Alexander Massey, 19 May 2020 BUY the sheet music – $3.95 (voice & guitar, optional vocal harmonies) In May 2020, during the lockdown, I was attending a morning meditation session run by Rabbi Anne Brener in the USA (4.30pm for me in the UK!). She asked us how we were feeling, …
Music For a playlist of these, click here. Adonai Adonai (Ex 34:6-7) – the 13 attributes of mercy Ana Eil Na / Please Bring Healing (Num 12:13) – “Please bring healing to body and soul; God, who blessed in times of old, make us whole.” Ashrei Yoshvei (Ps 84:5) – “Happy are they who dwell …
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.
Here is are some songs I have composed that may of be particular interest in a Jewish LGBTQ context. I would like to write more – if you can think of a text, or would like to commission me, please get in touch. Kumi Lach Rayati (Rise Up, My Love) – verses (and part verses) …
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