Music and recording © Alexander Massey 19 May 2016 BUY the sheet music (2 vces & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) The sheet music is also available as part of ‘Five Sacred Chants’. There is a shorter introductory article about the music and meaning of this chant here. “You have all been shown …
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 16 Feb 2017: V’asu li mikdash v’shochanti b’tocham. Recording with English words: “We’ll make You a holy home, and You will live with us.” BUY the sheet music (2 vces & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) The sheet music is also available for purchase as part of …
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 …
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey Sept 2014 BUY the sheet music (2 vces & pno/guit) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) I think of this chant as ‘sing as you fling’! At Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of the new year, the whole community is encouraged to a place of flowing water, and to cast …
Music and recording © Alexander Massey 11 March 2015 BUY the sheet music (3 vces & pno/guit) – $4.50 (3 copies @ $1.50) (I have written another substantial article on Elohai N’shamah, including 2 new meditations, which can be found here.) Chant, text, translation, source readings and reflections ….
The grace after meals, my setting of B’rich Rachamana was taught to the Lincoln Jewish Minyan at their St George’s Harvest Supper (2013). “After a lovely dessert of spiced plums and ice cream Steve then surprised the gathering by inviting them all to join him in singing Birkat Hamazon (Grace After Meals) in Hebrew. He …
(Also, take a look at my page ‘Music and thoughts on healing‘) Music, English words and audio © Alexander Massey, 12 May 2013 BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) – $3.95 BUY the sheet music (SATB) – $9 (4 copies @ $2.25) BUY the sheet music (SSAA) – $9 (4 copies @ $2.25) BUY the …
Music & audio © Alexander Massey 11 April 2013 BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces) – $3.95 (lead sheet) Meditative music must begin from silence. We must be prepared to enter silence first, because that is the most fertile space for beginning prayer. When I had my hand-woven tallit (prayer shawl) made, its …
© Music and recording: Alexander Massey June 2012 BUY the sheet music – $2.25 (3 copies @ $0.75) Birchat hamazon – blessing after the meal Brich rachamana malka d’alma marei d’hai pita. (Talmud, Brachot 40b) A Fountain of Blessings is the Compassionate One, Ruler of Eternity and the concealed and revealed Universe, Master of this …
Psalm 92:6 Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 25 March 2012 BUY the sheet music (round – 3 vces & pno) – $9 (4 copies @ $2.25) “How great are your works, God! Your thoughts are very deep.” The morning service includes Psalm 92 Tov l’hodot (‘It is a good thing to give thanks to …