Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - Daytime Viewing 1950s while his use of Ethiopian

while his use of Ethiopian pentatonic scale within the Western Art Music format places his compositions in conversation with more academically minded work

written for his wife

health into fragility

the issuing record label turned out to be going out of business

7" singles

Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - Daytime Viewing 1950s while his use of EthiopianDaytime Viewing (1979 80) is an extended narrative song, based on a casual analysis of daytime television drama and the audience phenomena such programming addresses. The piece explores the use of fantasy as a survival mechanism against loneliness, illustrating the human compulsion to inflate the mundane to mythological proportions. A central female character weaves tales, using threads of personal experience and the idea of TV as friend, as mantra,