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Hello Everyone!
I just returned from a concert/reading engagement in (of all places) Vilnius, Lithuania, where I played what was quite possibly the world's first cocktail piano rendition of the Lithuanian National Anthem for the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, the US Ambassador and 250 American women from all over the world. I'm thinking this might be an appropriate chapter for my next book.

Anyway, on my return I was happy to see that a lengthy interview I did with Kathy Parsons had been posted on her site: MainlyPiano.com.

Here's the link if any of you want to read it.
www.mainlypiano.com

Best,
Robin

Hi Robin,

Thanks for posting this. I just finished Piano Girl last night while listening to Somewhere in Time. You've got yourself a new fan! It was a lot of fun to read, especially for me, as I was living in NYC at the time you were there and I lived in Germany for a couple of years (ten years earlier) when I was in high school--so many of your locations are very familiar to me, especially the revolving Marriott lounge--which doesn't revolve anymore, as I discovered on a recent trip with my daughter. My mom got such a kick out of it when she came to visit me years ago.

Well done you. I really enjoyed your story.

Hi Rusty—
Thanks so much for writing! Sounds like you're following me around the world, or maybe I'm following you. Did you check out the Yamaha grand at the Marriott (in the no-longer revolving lounge)? They PAINTED it, sort of a rental car champagne-beige color. Ah well, at least the dummy has left the building. You read the book, you know what I'm talking about.

I get back to NYC pretty often, and on a recent trip I took a little tour of all the places I used to work. Very few of them have piano music these days. Looks like I moved to Europe at a good time.

Best wishes, and thanks for reading Piano Girl.

Robin

You know, I don't remember seeing the piano at the Marriott the last time we were there, dummy or no.

The last time I remember hearing a hotel pianist was in DC at the Mayflower when I was there for a conference in February. It isn't very common anymore.

I'm just remembering that they used to have a pianist on the main floor of I think John Wanamaker's (department store) in Phildelphia. I always thought that was the neatest thing.

Oh, not to seem like a stalker or anything, but we lived near Pittsburgh for a couple of years when I was a kid too!

Tchuss!