Rob (Shrock) Shirakbari had a front-row seat to Bacharach’s magic. Actually, he was so physically close to the songwriter onstage that, as he recalls, “we could high-five each other.” Bacharach’s musical director for roughly a decade and a half, and Warwick’s from 2011 until 2022, Shirakbari remembers a larger-than-life figure of “real command and presence,” of swagger and panache.