The Hebrew Psalms have inspired composers for thousands of years. Now, New York's Lincoln Center is presenting The Psalms Experience, a festival of choral settings of all 150 Psalms by 150 different ...

It's hard to read the Psalms without encountering one of the 65 references to the Hebrew word "mishpat," which is usually translated as "judgments" or "justice." The term appears 23 times in Psalm 119 ...

The singing of psalms spans thousands of years of church tradition. Today’s songwriters and worship leaders mine these texts for words and inspiration as they craft new songs for the church. For the ...

The sounds of silence ring loud and clear on the intensely contemplative “Seven Psalms,” Paul Simon’s often whisper-soft new album that is not — he maintains — an album in the conventional sense of ...

Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein’s new composition, The Chichester Psalms, was sung in Hebrew in the Chichester Cathedral yesterday. The new work, which had been commissioned by the Dean of ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...