Name: Tuftonia's Day by mfernandi
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Description: The "Tufts In Song" performance of "Tuftonia's Day," recorded in December of 1990.

Recorded in Cohen Audiorium at Tufts in the spring of 1983.

Fiona Wright & Marty Fernandi at Tufts

Anyone Can Whistle

Opening number from the BMI Musical Theater Workshop's 2002 mock musical OVERBOARD, with Joan Ross Sorkin, Warren Bloom, Susan Murray, Marty Fernandi and John Atkins.

If I Ever Make a Million

Recorded in the fall of 1990 by alumni and current members of the Tufts Beelzebubs, Jackson Jills, Tufts Amalgamates and Tufts Chorale, and released on the "Tufts In Song" album the following March.

Tufts In Song

T-U-F-T-S

On the occasion of my first visit (this coming evening) to the Metropolitan Opera in nearly eleven months—my state of unemployment a year ago having resulted in my sitting out this particular season, Met-subscription-wise—I thought it might be fun, today, to feature “The Next Event,” a song Susan and I wrote 21 years ago about how to get into the Met for free. (Pretty appropriate, huh?)

It’s six minutes long, because obviously, that goal is not easily achieved; conditions, variables and obstacles abound. Endless bravos to Randy Lake for playing Henry Harrison (this is his first FB appearance in the role), the character in Jonathan Ames’ THE EXTRA MAN—the novel on which we based this musical—who lays it all out for his inexperienced mentee, Louis Ives (sung by Brad Aspel, who has multiple Broadway credits). Susan provides (audibly) the stage directions, and also essays the role of “Lagerfeld,” the always-there culture vulture with whom our heroes are competing to gain entry. I’m accompanying at the piano, and if you’re wondering whether I somehow sprouted another ten fingers to do so, it’s not because I did (if only), but because I scored this particular number for piano-*four*-hands, and my old friend John Lowell graciously provided the fingers that (drat) I couldn’t will into being.

The Extra Man (BMI class presentation, 5/20/03)

The Next Event

The "Tufts In Song" performance of "Tuftonia's Day," recorded in December of 1990.

Tuftonia's Day

mfernandi

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