although Brian Olewnick (The Squid's Ear) said that Kline's Zippo Songs has a "lack of memorability," Alex Ross (The New Yorker, The Rest is Noise) described this collection as "one of the most brutally frank song cycles ever penned," and Anne Midgette for The New York Times described his it as "brilliant American lieder for the 21st century." Kline's contemporary adaptation of the Catholic Mass, John the Revelator (2006), was called "offbeat" and "moving" (The New York Times), and AllMusic called it "easily one of the most moving and engaging mass settings in recent memory." Discography Sources External links Phil Kline's Website New York Times profile 20th-century classical composers American male classical composers Columbia College (New York) alumni American classical composers 21st-century classical composers Living people Musicians from Akron, Ohio Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American composers 20th-century American composers 1953 births Classical musicians from Ohio 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians