John Taverner
There Arose Such a Clatter
When I first talked to Phil Kline about his boombox Christmas carol “Unsilent Night” (for aVillage Voice articlein 2002), I went in assuming that Kline was Jewish. Nothing weird about that, I figured; “White Christmas” is by Irving Berlin. Wrong. Kline was raised by devout Christians in Pennsylvania. Still, he rejected the idea that his […]