Atonys

Several people sent me a link to "Atonal Composers Gather for Atony Awards," an attempted satire of modern music at The Onion. Now, I love The Onion as much as any time-wasting American, but this is kind of a fail, as the kids say. I'll let go of the fact that Penderecki's name is mispronounced and the joke doesn't apply to his post-1975 music. But couldn't an intern have gone to Wikipedia and noticed that Stockhausen is dead? Or is this routine recycled from a few years ago? Either way, it doesn't hold a candle to Arnie Schoenberg and His Second Viennese School, never mind Bruno Heinz Jaja.