Nigun Galut (‘Exile’)
Music and audio © Alexander Massey Recording coming soon. In the meantime, here is the sheet music (free).
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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
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 …
Chazak, Chazak
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 1 May 2017 These words, based on 2 Samuel 10:11, are traditionally spoken as we finish reading a book of the Torah. They can be translated: “Be strong, be strong, and we shall be strong!” The first half is in the singular, and the second half is in the …
Oseh Shalom No.3 (in 5)
Music and audio © Alexander Massey 8 June 2020 – All Rights Reserved Two part round
Hameichin Mitzadei Gaver (‘… who makes our steps firm’)
Music and recording © Alexander Massey 18 July 2020 – All Rights Reserved A musical meditation on the morning blessing for moving mindfully through the world. “In blessing, I kneel to you,coming to the threshold of is-ness/presence,our source of all powers,that rules all that is and eternity;you firm up my steps,giving me your strength and …
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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 …
Adonai Roi (Psalm 23)
Music and recording © Alexander Massey 13 Sept 2020 – All Rights Reserved BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) $3.95 (Note: I have also written a two part round setting of the final verse of Ps 23, which you can find here.) 1 Yah is my shepherd; I lack nothing. [Chorus] 2 Yah makes me …
Yism’chu Hashamayim
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 …