The holiday season approaches, and as has been the case since 1992, revelers will soon gather in a host of cities and perform Phil Kline’s composition Unsilent Night. They will each download one of four parts of the piece and play it on some mobile device as they stroll down evening streets. Anything from a iPod to a boombox serves the music’s purposes.
Here’s how the performance went in Greenwich Village, New York not too many years ago.
You can skip over to this website to download a part and find an Unsilent Night near you. As the international schedule indicates, the fun has already concluded in some cities, like Athens, Georgia, but the Puget Sound area will soom serve up the piece twice, once in Tacoma, then in Seattle.
Meanwhile, since I am woefully delinquent in keeping up with my Hybrid Highbrow podcast, I have cooked up some Spotify Hybrid Highbrow playlists. Behold one for the holidays. I’m not done with it yet, but enjoy . . .
