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Updated 05/31/2006 Alarm Clock Theatre Company's P. S. Page Me Later won a 2005 Elliot Norton Award in the category of Best Fringe Production. I musically directed the show, wrote original incidental music, wrote a chunk of the show, directed the band, played piano, and co-produced the extensive visual presentation. So yeah, this one's going on the resume. I'm thrilled to take some ownership of the show, but this was very much a collaborative produciton, and major credit should go to Sally Dennis, the director of the show, as well as all the other Alarm Clock board members, who were a fundamental part of the show's success. It was an incredible pleasure to show up for performances knowing I was about to emabrk on exactly that which I hoped to do in music and theatre. I am left only to hope that such an opportunity will come again. Visit the Alarm Clock Theatre Company website for more information!
I am a musician, writer and web technology specialist in Somerville, Massachusetts. Follow the links at left for hours of FREE MUSIC, short stories, poems, my resume, and any other personal stuff I feel like broadcasting to the world. I update these pages pretty often, so come on back again, wont'cha? I'm always looking for new and interesting projects, new friends, sammich recipes and constructive criticism, so contact me anytime!
It's possible you're looking for the other Peter Fernandez, also a musician. I haven't heard his music but by his credentials he's pretty damn good.
MORE NEWS Updated 04/18/2006 I'm sick and sore, but I MADE IT! My time in the Boston Marathon was 4 hours, 38 minutes - not too shabby for running 26 miles with a sore troat. I have yet to even begin to deal with the experience, but it was a heck of a day.
In other news, Summer Villa's 2006 Boston 48 Hour Film Project entry Getting Gary receives its debut at the Kendall Square Cinema on Wednesday, April 19th. I'll see you there! ALSO, Alarm Clock Theatre Company's Fall 2005 show P. S. Page Me Later, which I co-wrote and musically directed, has been nominated for a 2005 Elliott Norton Award (the Boston version of the Tony awards) in the category of Best Fringe Production. We got more fringe than a flapper dress!
Updated 04/14/2006 It's 3 days until the Boston Marathon! I haven't been very good at keeping up with the Marathon Minute podcasts in the last few weeks as things have been totally crazy, but check out the latest, including my audio collage of the marathon day itself by going to the Marathon Minute page! You can catch my progress on marathon day at The Boston Athletic Association Website I'm bib number 18269.
Also, team Summer Villa created another fantastic film for the 48 Hour Film Project, and it's available online, thanks to our producer Bruce Spero and the fab folks at YouTube. Chek them out! our 2004 award winner "Sweeter by far"
Updated 04/07/2006 It's just over two weeks from the Boston Marathon, it's opening night of the latest Alarm Clock Theatre Company production, Rosa, and now our Fall 2005 show P. S. Page Me Later was nominated for an Elliott Norton Award! And tonight Summer Villa meets for the third time to put our best brain cells to celluloid (well, video) in the 2006 Boston 48 Hour Film Festival. Wish us luck!
This is one fantastic Friday.
We're number 18269! We're number 18269! I'm running the 2006 Boston Marathon for the American Liver Foundation. I've begun posting a weekly podcast of the various adventures of long-distance running, which will culminate in an audio documentary of the big day itself. Take a listen to Marathon Minute and sponsor me as I huff and puff it for liver health!
12/17/2006 P. S. Page Me Later - page it a hit! The latest Alarm Clock Theatre Company production P. S. - Page Me Later was a giant success, considered amnog the best of the year by the Boston Herald. Thanks to all who came out to see it during a busy holiday season. It was a blast conducting Pat Healy and Dave Desimone from right out on stage. Pat's uke and Dave's percussion genius really made the music fantastic, and that's only one part of a show that had the variety and talent of five shows going all at once. The writing, acting and direction were all beyond compare, and we've managed to one-up ourselves with each production. We hope to do that again this spring with Rosa, the winner of our playwriting contest. Hit Alarm Clock Theatre's webbity for more information. As for myself, I'm going to be completing the Duplex Cast Alubm, and maybe starting a new band. I'm dying to play out again. Oh and also, the music page has been drastically abridged while all media content is moved to a new server. Thanks for listening, and please make yourself comfortable. We have much to discuss.
Updated 12/01/2005 P. S. Page Me Later It's just a little over 24 hours until the world-premier of the latest Alarm Clock Theatre Company production, P. S. Page Me Later, scenes inspired by FOUND Magazine. This is a very unique and different show, directed by Sally Dennis, who starred as Suzanne in Duplex. The show also features other Alarm Clock alums such as Brian Polak, Luke Dennis, and Dave Desimone, a great cast, and many pieces written by a spate of Boston-area writers, songwriters and filmmakers. I musically directed, wrote one of the pieces, and co-produced the video presentation that accompanies the action onstage. Tickets are now available at Boston Theatre Scene dot com
DUPLEX tore the roof off! My first-ever full-length musical finished its 3-week run at the Boston Center for the Arts in mid-june, to packed houses and tremendous word-of-mouth. It was an amazing experience and I really look forward to starting the next one. But first I am going to Seattle to record the new Blue Tree album, and then come home and start laying down tracks for the Duplex original cast album, which will be completed in early 2006. If you'd like me to let you know when it's available, just shoot me an email and I'll keep you in the loop. I've uploaded some pics of the production, which will give you a taste of what we laid down!
Here's what the press had to say about DUPLEX:
"Fernandez proves a competent composer, peppering his lyrics with Cole Porter-esque humor and working in a range of styles. Swinging from upbeat rock numbers to impassioned ballads to calypso to traditional Broadway, and well performed by a four-piece outfit, the score supplies the cast members with plenty of material to flex their vocal muscles"
"Duplex is entertaining and intermittently fabulous"
"Fernandez's dialogue rings true to the perilous experience of learning to live together as
intimate partners-and this is all the more impressive as the actors mostly sing
their plans, misunderstandings, arguments, and reconciliations. If only
musical theatre could always feel this authentic-as though the rhymes were
coincidental and the melody simply the characters' natural tones of voice... This masterful
production deserves a life that endures long after its brief run in Boston."
"Peter Fernandez, who wrote book, music, and lyrics, delivers a poignant story of relationships --- what it takes for them to succeed, and what contributes to their dissolution --- with sensitivity and honesty. The music ranges from stylized Loesser-like tunes to terse, jazzy numbers. . . The cast delivered a mesmerizing evening for a very grateful audience. After hoots of applause at the curtain call, a second wave of spontaneous adulation erupted as the musicians came out from behind the curtain to make their way to the lobby."
"For a musical, it didn't make me vomit, which can only be good"
Updated 05/20/2005 ONE WEEK AND COUNTING! My world-premiere original musical Duplex has its debut public performance in only SEVEN DAYS! We did a run of the entire show last night and I can tell you without hesitation that it will be GREAT. The cast and crew and musicians involved are so imaginative and brilliant and give the show an amazing energy! Tickets are now onsale at www.BostonTheatreScene.com so get yours today! I'll be playing keys in the pit so I'll SEE YOU THERE!
Updated 03/09/2005 DUPLEX AUDITIONS Auditions for my first original full-length musical DUPLEX will occur April 3 and 4, 2005. Tickets go on sale next week!! I suppose I better START WRITING, HUH!?!? For more information, check out Alarm Clock Theatre Company's website! THE RETURN OF SUMMER VILLA! Team Summer Villa regrouped for the 2005 48 Hour Film Festival! Although we were disqualified for being 15 minutes late with our entry, our film At it Again still played to a standing ovation at the Brattle Theater. If you'd like to hear the tunes we wrote for our SECOND musical in TWO YEARS, check out the music page!
Updated 01/15/2005 The first production of Alarm Clock Theatre Company at the BCA was a great artistic success! For pics of the production, you can check out their website at alarcmclocktheatre.org Because of the huge workload of finishing up the book, lyrics and music of a full-length theater production, I was not able to complete Christmas Cookies 2004. But I can tell you next years' is gonna KICK ASS! I have posted a few new musical tidbits in the last couple months - be sure to check out The Hacks - that's some pretty weird stuff.
Updated 11/04/2004 The first season of Alarm Clock Theatre Company at the Boston Center for the Arts is really coming along, and we think you will be blown away, yes, BLOWN THE HELL AWAY by our fall production. I'm hurriedly trying to finish our spring musical DUPLEX, and the latest edition of Christmas Cookies is well underway. This fall also brings the release of two albums I've played on in the last year. Chris & Meredith Thompson - LIVE I had the great privilege to play bass and piano on this soulful album of spirituals and groovy folk songs by the luminescent folk duo. They are better than ever - buy their albums today on FolkWeb. "This Britpop influenced Boston trio serves up melodic pop/rock on their new release 'Beautiful Shadow' with vocals reminiscent of Brian Ferry from lead singer and principle songwriter Lawson Hancock." - CDBABY This record is getting heavy rotation in Alaska and Delaware. Lawson is really fun to work with and gave us all free rein to do any damn thing we pleased on it, so I did a lot of bass and piano all over the place. Thank you for supporting local music!!!
Also... Posted 9/20/2004 The first season of Alarm Clock Theatre Company will be kicking off this December with It's Called the Sugar Plum and The Indian Wants the Bronx. I am serving on the board of directors and will be integrally involved with all productions into the forseeable future. This illustrious coterie will also be producing DUPLEX, my original musical, next may 2005. When you're done surfing my li'l digital tube, check out all the exciting theatricality at www.alarmclocktheatre.org. Also, I just completed the score for TINMAN, a new short film by Karen Mae Black. Vids and pics will be available for download very soon!! Posted 6/08/2004 DUPLEX is happening!! My first-ever full-length orignial musical DUPLEX will be produced by Alarm Clock Theater and presented at the Boston Center for the Arts in May and June, 2005! I have a lot of work to do to make this show the badass production I really want it to be, but I'm thrilled about the opportunity and so thankful for the support and enthusiasm of everyone so far involved in the production, especially Luke Dennis, Sally Dennis, Brian Polak, Karen Black and Eliza Grinnell. More about DUPLEX will be broadcast soon. Alarm Clock Theater will be holding its first fundraising event at the Improv Asylum on sunday, July 18 2004, from 6:00 to 10:00pm. We'll have a raffle, fun treats and live performances by BLUE HORIZON and LOS ENCENDIDOS! And every cent benefits the production schedule of Alarm Clock Theater, determined to inject a fresh jag of energy and creativity into the Boston theater community! Come join us for music, meet-cutes and fun!
Team SUMMER VILLA wins Top 10 Best of Boston for "Sweeter By Far" at the 48 Hour Film Festival!! Last month, April 2-4, I participated in a crazy competition called the 48 Hour Film Festival, wherein teams of likeminded, sleep-deprived creative types write and direct an entire 4-8 minute short film in 48 consecutive hours. We managed to submit our offering, at 7 minutes 59 seconds, within 15 minutes of the deadline. It was an incredible experience. Our film has won 2 awards! First, we won the Audience Award for the night ours was shown, April 14 at the Somerville Theater, which put us in the Top 10 Best of Boston for 2004!! Additionally, we won the award for Best Original Soundtrack, by yours truly in a tremendous collaboration with Sara Adelman, Pat Healy and Marty Johnson. Hooray, us!!! I hope to very soon be able to present to you the web public a QuickTime version of our award-winning short film Sweeter by Far. I will definitely be posting the soundtrack for download in the coming weeks. For more information about the 48 Hour Film Festival, and a list of the other winners, slap your mouse on this bad boy.
Special thanks to MARK POUTENIS for contributing his amazing artistic skills to these very merciful renderings of yours truly. Check out his work online at ThinkingApeBlues.com. Special thanks as well to TJ Connelly and his science at Thirteen.net for their excellent web hosting services. And another special thanks for everyone who's contributed to, participated in, and provided guidance and inspiration for the pile of work herein. I know that's a lot of you but a one-by-one shoutout will eat up a lot of bandwidth better used for the TALENTS of the said list of geniuses. Suffice it to say I appreciate you all so much and what you've given me by being part of my life. THANK YOU! xoxo |
