i do know that that year i also accompanied a freshman tuba player on the hindemith tuba sonata a freshman(?) sax player on the glazounov saxophone concerto - maybe just the first movement? that year taught me that there are levels of accompanying that i am not at and do not aspire to

i am a very good sight reader, but some things are hard to sight-PLAY, because my sight-reading is "rhythms and directions of phrases" and the more 20th century you get, even if the rhythms make "sense" the pitches might not and so then your fingers are going "wait what"