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The Atony Awards

🔗paulerlich <paul@...>

3/21/2002 12:25:15 PM

From The Onion:

Atonal Composers Gather For Atony Awards

HOLLYWOOD, CA- The recording industry's top atonal composers gathered
in Los Angeles Monday for the gala seventh annual Atony
Awards. "Tonight is hostile music's biggest night," said Krzysztof
Penderecki, nominee in the Most Dissonant Piece category. "I can't
tell you what a thrill it is to be here, surrounded by so many
legends of arrhythmic cacophony." The highlight of the evening is
expected to be the awarding of the Olivier Messiaen Lifetime
Achievement Award to Karlheinz Stockhausen for "more than five
decades of aggressively impenetrable anti-music."