Piano Girl: Lessons in Life, Music, and the Perfect Blue Hawaiian
by Robin Meloy Goldsby
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Author: Robin Meloy GoldsbyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-10
ISBN: 0879308249
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Backbeat Books
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Book Review: Piano Girl : Essentials in life and so much more.
Summary: 5 Stars
How does music effect you? Are you a player, a listener, a fan, a non-appreciator? Doesn't matter, Piano Girl will have something for you all. Go ahead and get a copy because you will need to mark several passages to reread and highlight others that contain beautiful and elegant phrasings to describe the people and experiences of her life. Being seated on the opposite side of the stage, as a listener, I did not expect a story about a performing musician's memoirs to be all that relatable. Surprisingly, this book is going to be added to my `best reads of all time' list. Yes, you will learn a great deal of how life looks from a musician's point of view, but you won't be able to finish it without learning something new about yourself. Mrs. Goldsby takes you, arm in arm, through her most embarrassing, most heartbreaking, most delightful and lasting memories that will bring out some of those emotions you keep locked in a box, tucked away, that you "try to remember, but hope to forget". Her adventures in music, love and life will give you an honest and fascinating look into the nature of people and all the dramas, comedies and tragedies that define a lifetime. "Laughter", she writes, "is a kind of music - the best kind". Come and get a good dose of it. If you have any doubts about the subject matter, abandon them. Piano Girl is about life with a little background music added for your entertainment pleasure. If you are a musician, a musician's fan, if you are human, then don't miss this one. It will leave a personalized imprint on every reader who ventures in, regardless of whether you came for the music or just for the meal. A friend and guitar instructor, J. Horne is responsible for opening this book to my eyes and enriching my musical life, R. Goldsby is responsible for making me laugh out loud and keeping my mind wide open. Thank God for both of them.
Summary of Piano Girl: Lessons in Life, Music, and the Perfect Blue Hawaiian
Piano Girl is the story of one woman's accidental career as a cocktail-lounge piano player. Sometimes poignant and often hilarious, this engaging memoir reveals the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business side of the keyboard. A pianist in lounges and lobbies around the world, Robin Meloy Goldsby tells her story by connecting the people she has met with the places she has played and the pianos she has known. Along the way she discovers the human side, for better or worse, of her audiences - mobsters and moguls, the down-and-out and downright scary, and ordinary people dealing with life in extraordinary ways. Her tale provides insights into the art and craft of piano playing as well as inspiring lessons in life as Robin pursues her dreams on her own terms.Performing Arts Books
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