King David playing the lyre in a scene from a 15th-century manuscript of the Book of Psalms. Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images The earliest musical ...

The 81-year-old songwriter ruminates on mortality, faith and meaning in an album that could be a farewell. By Jon Pareles What do songwriters do when they feel death approaching? As time runs out, ...

The Psalms occupy a paramount place in the world’s liturgy. What is it about their spiritual scope and emotional breadth that gives them such power? What can we learn from their language and poetry, ...

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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 ...

Paul Simon is marking a return to music with the new opus “Seven Psalms,” described as a “33-minute, seven-movement all-acoustic composition.” The project, due out May 19, was reportedly made with the ...