Reply #2: I hate all the atonal composers

[Lydia Leftcoast]

When I was in grad school, I ushered for concerts at the Yale School of Music, including the string quartet series, and I developed the theory that there is really only one atonal string quartet in existence. It starts descending tritone and up a seventh in unison, hit a discordant chord. It always ends with the players sawing away frantically and ending on an unlikely note.

Various composers pass the manuscript around and put their names on it as needed. No one can remember how an atonal piece goes anyway, so audiences are none the wiser. :-)