Pages with label: piano accompaniment

Four years ago today, Associate Professor Lachezar Karanlakov passed away He was one of the most remarkable teachers of music history I have ever encountered. He was a deeply erudite teacher, capable of holding his students’ attention not through dramatic gestures, but through the effortless flow of his thought - a thought that moved easily across eras, styles, composers, philosophy, literature, and culture. From time to time, his narrative would be coloured by his characteristic “incidentally”  that habitual filler word of his, after which yet another unexpected door would usually open onto a new story, a...