Culture
Regina Spektor: Tiny Desk Concert
By: Bob Boilen I NPR
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Regina Spektor sat in her hotel room waiting as we tuned the piano behind my desk. In those idle moments, she whipped up a “Tiny Song,” and she opens her concert singing this sweet, funny and tiny ditty. “Took a train from New York to D.C. / And everyone was coughing on me,” she sings, “But I wore a real tight mask / And got myself a negative COVID test.” I won’t spoil the rest except to say that what unfolds over the course of the next five songs is the humor and passions I’ve loved in Regina Spektor’s music since receiving an early release of her “Soviet Kitsch” CD in 2004.
SET LIST
▪ “Tiny Song”
▪ “Loveology”
▪ “Becoming All Alone”
▪ “Après Moi”
▪ “Fidelity”
▪ “Samson”
MUSICIANS
▪ Regina Spektor: piano, vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
▪ Producer/Creative Director: Bob Boilen
▪ Director: Kara Frame
▪ Editor: Michael Zamora
▪ Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
▪ Series Producer: Bobby Carter
▪ Videographers: Kara Frame, Michael Zamora, Josh Bryant
▪ Audio Assistant: Natasha Branch
▪ Production Assistants: Jill Britton, Joby Tanseco
▪ Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer, Maia Stern
▪ VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
▪ Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann