On the new album Songs of Wonder, singer/oud player Basya Schechter works with ten poems by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)–the revolutionary thinker who wrote God in Search of Man and marched with Martin Luther King. Schechter sets Heschel’s words to music and turns them into songs. Schechter is the woman behind the band Pharaoh’s Daughter, a Sephardic-influenced world music ensemble. Rather than trying to write […]