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 ...

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Singing Hebrew psalms with a Jamaican lilt over bass-heavy “riddims,” Matisyahu (right) may have hit upon the year’s most unlikely formula for pop success: Hasidic Judaism and reggae. Now the ...

Leonard Bernstein’s 1965 work “Chichester Psalms” is not heard in First Congregational Church every year. Or every decade. The First Church Choir most recently sang the piece four decades ago — on Nov ...

Nathan Salsburg wrote new arrangements of Biblical psalms for his just-announced album Psalms, which will be out in August. His backing band for the album features some of the guitarist’s many ...

Purists, beware. Stephen Mitchell’s “A Book of Psalms” is not so much a translation of the sacred poem-prayers as it is a believer’s reinterpretation. “My primary allegiance in these psalms,” Mitchell ...

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 ...