Finished a year before the 1967 Third Arab-Israeli War, Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles frames the playlist with a quartet of movingly astringent dispatches from the Roman Catholic mass for the dead. Shedding contemporary light on the people of Gaza are three Israeli singers Omer Adam, Jasmin Moallem & Ofra Haza and three Palestinian singers Tamer Nafar, Kamilya Jubran & Aya Halaf. Palestinian groups 47SOUL & DAM embraced Rap, music originating from Black American oppression, that taught them English and now allows them to reach a young international audience with activist messages. The Hebrew-language singers draw from rich melismatic traditions to make songs of deep emotions and great popular appeal. Adam’s dance music and Hip Hop affinities have made him one of the world’s most downloaded pop stars. Dean of Israeli-born composers Shulamit Ran (Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory: “That Which Happened,” 2014) and the Russian-born Ljova (Finding Babel: “Healing,” 2015)—half her age—share wide-ranging Hebraic cultural and classical sensibilities. In his Palestinian Notebook,German-born Modernist Jewish composer Stefan Wolpe, a student of Schreker and Busoni, offered piano music of subtly & strength. Fellow New Yorker Steve Reich explores current meanings of the Old Testament and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron from which both Judaism and Islam emerged—with  significance for Christianity. Turkish pianist/composer Fazil Say’s profound Black Earth is here performed by Inna Faliks who unveiled her interpretation on Jacaranda’s 2023 “Za’atar” concert of contemporary music of the Middle East. John Adams’s controversial opera The Death of Klinghoffer, depicting the Palestinian terrorist attack on the passenger liner Achille Lauro, bestowed upon classical music two of the most haunting choruses of 20-century opera. To warn, this playlist may contain offensive language among its sundry appeals for freedom, mutual respect, and healing.