Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - Daytime Viewing 1950s Lucciole is an album about

Lucciole is an album about small lights carried through moments of transition—an invitation to listen closely to the places where life changes

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

“Marginal Invitation” is a subdued work with a deeply rooted melodic sensibility that is rich in overtones

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Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - Daytime Viewing 1950s Lucciole is an album aboutDaytime 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,