Accompaniment as a learning process

[srikant1987]

It is a learning process where in at least in modern concerts, the "trainer" (main artist) is not really given the authority to criticise the "learner" (the accompanist) beyond a point. Can such a learning process be as beneficial as another one where the trainer is given more authority and freedom? Perhaps regarding one vocalist as a guru is more beneficial for making a violin technique more vocal-like than mere accompaniment?

[Shivadasan]

All the three great violin accompanists, Lalgudi, TNK &MSG have expressed on more than one occasion that whatever they learnt was on the concert stage while accompanying the veteran musicians. Sometimes they exhibited more vidwat than the main artists themselves. I have heard that in the earlier era the there were no classes for the disciples of a vocalist. All they learnt was while listening to the practice of the guru and while accompanying on the platform.