February 2012
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January 2012
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A Hilarious Look Back
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Five years ago I was on tour in California and, to promote the tour, I made an appearance on live radio. KPIG is known for its live-in-studio interviews, and the hosts there are open to all kinds of music. I was thrilled they were interested in having me. Since the studio was small, I agreed to performing live on air on an 88-key weighted keyboard. The engineer worked hard...
“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend...”
– Steven J Ross
December 2011
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Enjoying the journey
I snapped this photo on the way to the bank yesterday. I am thinking about all the times I ran that errand.
I remember being a little girl and holding my mother’s hand as we walked to the bank in Irvington, NJ. I was too shy to ask for a lollipop so I just hoped and prayed the bank teller would notice me and give me one.
Living in Manhattan, going to the bank usually meant a long wait on...
November 2011
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Anonymous asked: Robin, I love your music and I would so much love to listen to it live played by you in a concert. I live in Germany and was wondering if you were planning any concerts in Europe for the future. My deepest appreciation, Maria
October 2011
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alice-in-sunderland asked: I went to your concert tonight at Juniata College. I absolutely adored your music. It was so beautiful, and your entire atmosphere as you play is lovely. Thank you so much for coming to play for us!
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Autumn Leaves
When I was a little girl, my mother and I would take walks to collect the colorful autumn leaves that had fallen to the ground. I placed my carefully selected maple, elm, pear, oak and walnut leaves into a plastic bag. They were orange, yellow, crimson, red, green and gold. When we got home we’d find the biggest books in the house, usually the dictionary and a few encyclopedias and...
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September 2011
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Anonymous asked: Robin, I am a big fan of classical music, and I listen to it a lot. It is relaxing. But I have found that when things look really bad, when I am down, discouraged, and depressed, I just automatically turn to your music. Sitting down quietly and just listening to your music provides not only relaxation, but it is actually therapy. It encourages me and lifts my spirits like nothing else. ...
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Ha! They *almost* got me! (Fraud alert)
I received a large order from a store in Switzerland the other day. I was so happy! The order was for about 60 CDs and 60 songbooks. I carefully packed all the merchandise for their long journey and waited to hear back from the store as to which shipping company they would be using.
The store provided a credit card number and asked, as a favor, to please also charge an extra $350. on to the...
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Imagining a Different Life
When I lived in Manhattan, and later Montclair, NJ, going to the bank was an errand that took some serious time. Long lines, or in the case of the suburbs, finding a place to park took up precious minutes I wished I could have saved in a jar. But here in rural PA going to the bank only leads to daydreams and wonder.
After two blocks, I am out of my neighborhood and driving past farmland and...
Anonymous asked: I am in love with your song "Amy's Lullaby"! Is there any place that it's sheet music is sold separately from the others songs on the album?
June 2011
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"I Want to Ride My Bicycle...I want to ride my...
…I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like.”
Remember that song? It was catchy.
In my childhood I rode my bike everywhere: to the community pool, to Burger King, to the library, to the park. No helmet. Reckless, carefree, I crossed busy intersections and got to where I needed to go.
While living in Manhattan I rode on the city streets of New York City from audition...
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Father's Day thoughts
Happy Father’s Day. Here’s a picture of me way back when with my Dad. We’re standing in front of my childhood home in Maplewood, NJ. I remember that purse. I loved it. I felt so grown up having a purse. I don’t think there was anything in it besides a packet of tissues and a few quarters.
My Dad taught me how to hit a baseball (ok, whiffle ball), sink a basket, ride a...
livebach asked: Thank you for the follow. I am always interested in what you have to post. I hope my piano playing can bring me as far as you have gone with your career.
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Off to the Mountain - and the Accidental CD Cover
I was invited back to the “Music on the Mountain” Festival at the Mohonk Mountain House (happening next week—-see mohonk.com for details).
Boy, do I love this place. It is exquisite, and is, in my opinion, everything a mountain resort should be. Hiking trails, gardens, nature walks, horse back riding, lectures, concerts, wonderful cuisine in both casual and elegant settings, a...
May 2011
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Anonymous asked: Robin,
It was great to see you in Hamilton, Ohio after so many years! I am very pleased that you have acquired rights to your original CD's. As you know, I had my "Heal of the Hand" CD with me, which you autographed. Well, I put it in the CD player in the car on the way home and just let it run. It went through 5 complete cycles before I finally stopped it. And I...
It was great to see you in Hamilton, Ohio after so many years! I am very pleased that you have acquired rights to your original CD's. As you know, I had my "Heal of the Hand" CD with me, which you autographed. Well, I put it in the CD player in the car on the way home and just let it run. It went through 5 complete cycles before I finally stopped it. And I...
“Return of a Knight” (solo piano/Robin...
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Everything Old is New Again
The fate of the recordings I made in the 1990’s under the North Star Music label had been an unknown for the past few months, and that left me feeling unsettled. After twenty-five years, the label had closed its doors. I had no idea what would become of the albums I had made for the label. Several of them were already out of print, but what about the rights to the “masters”? I...
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A Winter's Sonata →
I am just back from my show at the Fitton Center in Hamilton, Ohio. During intermission an audience member named Bill approached me at the CD table and mentioned that he had first heard my music on Pandora Radio. Surprised (and happy) to hear my arrangements of the music from the Korean drama, “A Winter’s Sonata”, he said he just had to come see the show with his friends, even...
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Talking on the Phone while Playing Piano
This photo was taken of me at my sound check last week in Roscommon, MI. I was checking my messages. When I saw it, I was reminded of how I used to practice the piano while talking to my mom on the phone. That might seem strange to you—-a pianist talking on the phone while practicing, but I know some pianists who READ magazines while running scales and exercises.
I’ve been known to...
Anonymous asked: You play both large, urban venues and small rural venues like tomorrow night (5/7/2011) at Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts. What drives where you perform ? I have been casually following your concert calender and jumped at this opportunity to hear your music live in my state of Michigan. Thank-you for making your concerts available to such a wide geographic group. Anxious to hear and see...
April 2011
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Anonymous asked: What inspires you to write a song? And when you do, what's your song writing process like? Does it happen mostly at the piano...or away from it?
Anonymous asked: will you ever sell the sheets for the lullabies?
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Played in a building shaped like a piano tonight!
After my sound check today at Ball State University’s Pruis Hall, I sat outside in the Spring sunshine to take in the vibe of the college campus. The kids looked happy and carefree. It looked a lot like a page out of the scrapbook of my college days, except for the cell phones that were practically in every hand.
Pruis Hall was just down the road from the David Letterman Hall (turns out...
March 2011
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Sheet music to try (before you buy)
I miss the days of the neighborhood sheet music store. In my years at NYU, I spent countless hours in stores like Carl Fischer Music in Manhattan browsing sheet music sheets, Broadway scores, and giant “fake books”. Reading the music and “playing the music in my head” before buying was as natural as browsing through novels at Borders. It’s like that for most musicians...
Walk with Me
More than a decade ago, I composed and recorded a cello/piano duet called “Walk with Me”, a song I dedicated to my own mother on the CD “Mother: Songs Celebrating Mothers and Motherhood”. It was a surprise hit on the recording, and it was a joy to perform it in concert with cellist Catherine Bent. The song went on to accompany ballroom dancers on PBS television and provide...
February 2011
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New York, New York
It was great to be back in New York doing a show. I performed at the Public Theater’s “Joe’s Pub” , named after the late Joe Papp, a very talented producer/director, perhaps best-known for bringing A CHORUS LINE to life.
Friends from all parts of my life past and present gathered at Joe’s for the show. Thank you to everyone who came out to the show and for those who...
Anonymous asked: Hello Robin_First of all, I would like to thank-you for that wonderful performance here in Van Buren, Arkansas on Valentine's Day!! I really, really enjoyed your beautiful music. You made my Birthday this year Special! I would like one of your CDs and would like to purchase one if necessary. How do I go about doing so? I checked out the merchandise that you have available on your...
I Love You
Important words. Say them to the ones you love. Often.
Have a great Valentine’s Day everyone!
I will be performing at the Van Buren Fine Arts Center (Van Buren, Arkansas) this 2/14.
Anonymous asked: Are you married and do you have kids if so how how old are they boy or girl what's their names?
January 2011
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My favorite part...
Last week I posted on Facebook that my piano was being tuned. I was surprised at the number of comments that simple post received. Some people really hate the sound of a piano being tuned. Others commented they needed to call in their tuners; my post served as a reminder. A few others commented that they tuned their own pianos and was surprised I did not tune my own.
This little dialogue got me...
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Imagine
The performing arts conference I attended this week took place close to Steinway Hall in NYC. I stopped in at Steinway while giving my interns a quick tour of midtown Manhattan.
At Steinway I found Betsy Hirsch, or rather, she found me, in one of the back rooms playing a beautiful B model Steinway. Betsy is Steinway’s top sales rep and it’s no wonder: she’s a great musician,...
December 2010
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Handmade: A Thank You.
I love handmade things. Sweaters. Jewelry. Photographs. Music. Paintings. Pictures. Cookies. Pottery. Glass. Quilts. Needlepoint. Collages. Painted furniture. Sculpture. Wooden bowls. Ceramics. Steinways.
I enjoy buying handmade things. The artist’s intention is to create something beautiful, desired. That energy fills my house and makes me happy.
A heartfelt thank you to all of you who...
Anonymous asked: Hi Robin,
You are such an inspiration to myself and my 7 years old daughter who's learning music and classical piano.
How would you suggest ways to keep motivating my daughter that the journey is most worthwhile?
What have been some of your strongest motivators to get to where you are today?
Thanking you,
Eleonora and Nikita
Sydney Australia
You are such an inspiration to myself and my 7 years old daughter who's learning music and classical piano.
How would you suggest ways to keep motivating my daughter that the journey is most worthwhile?
What have been some of your strongest motivators to get to where you are today?
Thanking you,
Eleonora and Nikita
Sydney Australia
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Big Rock 5, Robin's finger 0
First off, don’t worry. This injury is much better now and happened back in October. I couldn’t write about it or talk about it with anyone except my nearest and dearest until now. It was just too upsetting.
So here’s what happened.
I was out in the garden, enjoying the October weather and colors of the season. I trimmed back spent blooms, divided and transplanted a few...
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Holiday stress relief →
“Amazing Grace/Silent Night” - Robin Spielberg, solo piano
I performed this in Massachusetts and it was just an amazing thing for me to have the audience start singing in the middle of the song…we were all there in the moment together. Ahhh.
ENJOY
November 2010
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Vermont Night
In the 1980’s I went to Vermont as an acting student in David Mamet’s Vermont summer workshop. The Atlantic Theater Company grew out of these workshops and Vermont became our summer home. I fell in love with Vermont; its mountains and valleys, its maple syrup, antique stores, country roads, its crisp mornings.
By the end of the decade my Vermont summers were replaced with New York...
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