What's Wrong With This Headline?

What's wrong with this headline?

After 200 Years, Classical Composer Chopin's Music Still Holds Mysteries

Well, nothing, actually — that is, if it appeared at the head of an article in, say, Rolling Stone or Entertainment Weekly. But it didn't. It appeared as the headline of a regular Washington Post column by The Washington Post's chief classical music critic, Anne Midgette (which headline, we hasten to add, we're absolutely certain was NOT written by Ms. Midgette).

That "Classical Composer" bit is genuinely embarrassing for the Post — or ought to be. They really have to stop employing Gen X or Gen Y writers to write headlines for high culture stuff — or educate them first.

(No, we're not really back online yet. Our new replacement Dell laptop won't be shipped before the first week in March we've just been informed. Dell, it appears, has a parts supply problem, and it's holding up their production lines for several of their machines, ours being one of them. Yes, we're really pissed.)