Word: accompanist
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After graduating from Harvard in 1956, he went to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger. He was studying composition full-time and had given up the idea of a concert career, yet he somehow found time to tour Holland, Belgium, and France as an accompanist to the singer Robert Gartside. In 1952 Berman returned to Harvard as a graduate student in Music. When Nadia Boulanger visited the United States. Berman impressarioed the concert at the Fogg Art Museum. Shortly afterward he returned to France temporarily resumed accompanying. He came back to Harvard in 1963 and began work...
Mirza's ragas show a clarity that American critics have often found lacking in performances of other Indian musicians. He manages to achieve organic union of his melodic material with the complementary rhythms of his tabla accompanist Faygaz Khan, without sacrificing the hold definition of the raga's theme...
Last summer at Tanglewood he was the chief rehearsal accompanist under Michael Thomas, assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...