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[Aurelia Loveman]

Before you aim that machine-gun (pardon the pun) at me, could we stop 
to consider for a minute what is "contemporary?" Do we absolutely 
have to break windows, shatter glass and scream, in order to produce 
"contemporary" art?

Consider a similar situation in music: half a century ago, lovers of 
contemporary music wouldn't have sat still for anything that wasn't 
within the twelve-tone scale. Now here we are in the 21stC and the 
12-tone scale, while sometimes still heard, seems rather quaint. 
Nice, but dated. Harmonies -- good God, even the occasional major 
third -- are everywhere to be heard; and still the music is 
undeniably contemporary.

Notions of beauty do change, but could we do without the machine-guns?
Aurelia
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