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accompaniment

Music a subordinate part for an instrument, voices, or an orchestra
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accompaniment

A decoration added to a building with the intention of enhancing its appearance.
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service will feature Linda Gilmore, organ/piano; songs and music by Mark Frystak, guitar and vocals; a Brass Quintet; the FCC Ringers, high school through adult bell choir directed by Denise Caliendo; and the Chancel Choir, directed by Denise Caliendo with Linda Gilmore, organ/piano accompanist.
If given music to sight-read, the accompanist's first priority is to focus on the rhythm.
I am grateful for his articulate and superb explanation of our North American preference for the term "collaborative pianist" rather than "accompanist." Indeed, we here in North America find, as did my teacher Samuel Sanders, the term "accompanist" demeaning.
Sally Aicheson, the choir's accompanist, is the new assistant musical director.
At the end of the questionnaire there was an additional sheet, where respondents were asked to write a free-form answer to the question: What are my personal expectations of the vocal pedagogue and the accompanist in psychological terms?
Mr Stubbs was also a tutor with Glamorgan Youth Choir, during which time he established a reputation as a competent accompanist. He was remembered by friends and family, including his wife and son, at the Christian ceremony at Margam Crematorium.
But on this reissue of Haydn songs, beautifully delivered by soprano Lisa Milne, mezzo Bernarda Fink and tenor John Mark Ainsley, it is the presence of accompanist Roger Vignoles which makes such a huge impact.
Concerts in the Barn (July 24, with mezzo Laura Tucker and accompanist Brian Finley) and Orford, Que.
In January, Maria Martinez, a cellist from Spain, and Mia Elezovic, a Croatian piano accompanist, delighted a State Department audience with their classical selections of the Cassado Sonata in A minor by Gaspari Cassado I Moreu and Adagio and Allegro by Robert Schumann.
Synthonia Male Voice Choir is looking for an accompanist to replace Dr Gordon Angus who has worked with the choir for 20 years.
Ballet teacher Kathryn Sullivan says the class accompanist is "another teacher." So true.
SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: Band and orchestra, trombone, four years; piano accompanist in Middle School Musical, four years; Ski Club; piano lessons.
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