Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 12 Dec 2015. An earlier recording and a version of this article and song were pubished on Ritual Well (USA), June 2016. BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces lead sheet) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) Transliteration of lyrics: B’ruchah haba’ah b’sheim Havayah. Mi zot hanish’kafah k’mo-shachar […]
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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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Music, English lyrics and Recording © Alexander Massey, Aug 2014. Hebrew words (Trad.) Dedicated to my Rabbi, Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi (ztz”l), completed during shloshim. These three Hebrew lines from the evening blessing express our yearning for God’s protection – day and night – and throughout our lives. I think they can also be a prayer for the
Listen/watch song on YouTube Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 15 February 2014 BUY the sheet music (2 vces) – $4.50 (2 copies @ $2.25) The fun of this song is all in the lyrics (printed below). First, the chorus loses more words each time it happens, and, by doing so, gradually reveals the differences between
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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Mi Adir – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, 13 Nov 2013 BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces & pno) – $4.95 BUY the sheet music (solo voice & string quartet) – $14.95 (full score + string parts) Mi Adir is a text that is traditionally used at a Jewish wedding as the couple processes
Solo – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2012 Duet – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2012 The sheet music is available in any key for £3.50 GBP (please contact me if you want a different key from the ones shown here) BUY the sheet music (solo & pno, Fmaj) – $4.95 BUY the
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 22 April 2013 BUY the sheet music (solo lead sheet, G or Bbmaj) – $3.95 BUY the sheet music (low duet & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) BUY the sheet music (high duet & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) Shalom Aleichem is a traditional Shabbat
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 11 Apr 2013 BUY the sheet music (1 vce or 2 vce round) – $3.95 How good are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel! [Num. 24:5] As for me, O God abounding in grace, I enter your house to worship with awe in Your sacred place. [Ps