Pretty Pretty: Piano Girl vs. Trump

This is Robin Goldsby’s essay from 2016. It is published in her 2021 book Piano Girl Playbook: Notes on a Musical Life [Backbeat/Rowman Littlefield]. Excerpt courtesy of the publisher. *** My hair is big. My dress is too tight. It’s 1986. I’m sitting at a Steinway on a Saturday night in Manhattan. I’m back at […]

Home for the Holidays

Robin Goldsby looks at “home” from an expatriate perspective. Written initially for the FAWCO Region 5 Conference in Cologne, Germany, Goldsby has performed this piece at concerts in Hamburg, Vienna, Berlin, and Rome.