Name game

The New York Times' Allan Kozinn ponders the increasing tendency of classical-music groups to adopt quirky, catchy or elliptically referential names:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/arts/music/16names.html?ref=music

We'll know the trend has really arrived when Dave Barry writes, "That sounds like a good name for an alt-classical group."

(Note to The Times' copy editors: It's eighth blackbird, no capital letters.)