TV Exclusive: CUTTING-EDGE COMPOSERS CORNER- AJ Shively Sings Drew Fornarola's 'Eight and Five'

By: Aug. 16, 2013
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We're celebrating the summer with one of our favorite songs by Drew Fornarola! This week's video features AJ Shively singing "Eight and Five" at our CEC concert at NYMF last summer.
Drew told us about his writing process for this song and here is what he had to say: "Eight and Five is a standalone cabaret song about a sibling relationship in early adulthood. A.J. Shively's performance, backed up by the Cutting Edge Composers Band, was one of the highlights of my 2012. I hope you enjoy it!"

Drew Fornarola is a songwriter and playwright living in New York City. He is currently writing a new musical for Dreamworks Animation. Other theater: Molly Shannon's Tilly the Trickster (Atlantic Theater Co, TRW); COLLEGE The Musical (Dramatic Publishing); Thucydides (Samuel French);Awesome Allie: First Kid Astronaut (TRW);Uncle Pirate (Samuel French). Winner of the NYMF Award for Excellence in Lyrics and the John Wallowitch Award for Songwriting; three time MAC Award Finalist and 2009 Richard Rodgers Award Finalist. Original underscore for Devil Boys from Beyond (New World Stages), string arrangements for #1 charting Japanese band CREAM. B.A. Princeton, J.D. Fordham Law, Alumnus BMI Workshop. www.drewfornarola.com



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