In these stunning psalms, everything is illuminated — including the lives of King David and Thomas More
At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song' focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and literacy
At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song' focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and literacy
At an Orthodox synagogue in Los Angeles, psalms to 'rally the troops' are added to communal prayer
The South African musician worked on a version of ‘Im Hashem Lo Yivneh Bayis’
The 81-year-old artist's latest album, 'Seven Psalms,' confronts mortality with honesty and just a bit of humor
The 'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper repurposed Psalm 23 to reflect his own reality
Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs By Graham Johnson Yale University Press, 3,000 pages, $300 A few months before he died in 1828 at the age of 31, Franz Schubert produced a setting of the 92nd Psalm, Tov Lehodot La’Adonai. Yet, as Graham Johnson asks in his massive new compendium about the Austrian composer, “How many…
I doubt many of the attendees at Kehilat Hadar’s Upper West Side Yom Kippur services, at which the “Lamedvavnik Niggun” made its debut liturgical appearance last fall, knew the story behind the tune. I do, because I cooked it up with Aryeh Bernstein, who leads high holiday services at Hadar. We borrowed the melody from…
My Israeli-born kids recited Tehillim in kindergarten. Tehillim, the Psalms of David, are background music here in Jerusalem. But they weren’t when I was growing up in mid-20th-century New York. David’s words lived on in my siddur and set to Shlomo Carlebach’s music, but the idea of reciting them on their own, and not during…
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