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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a podcast excerpt (Trailer 2: Season 4 Episode 15 - Danny Holt: Pianist, Percussionist, Composer, and Producer) created 2024-04-08. The clip features Danny Holt in an interview-style segment with other unnamed speakers (labeled SPEAKER B and SPEAKER C) and includes ad reads for Chumba Casino and RSS.com. The conversation promotes Holt's new album Trailblazers (collaboration with violist Molly Gebrian), discusses transcriptions of cello sonatas for viola and the inclusion of lesser-known female composers (including Bosmans and Dora Pejacevic), and directs listeners to listen to the full episode and visit related links. Content type: PODCAST.
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Uh, your latest album called The Trail Blazers with the violist Molly— how do you pronounce her last name?
Yes, good for you for asking, because people usually don't get it right the first time. It's Molly Gebrian. Molly and I met when we were like 15 at a summer music camp. So we've been friends forever and we have very rarely actually been in the same place at the same time, but we really like collaborating. So we've created a couple of projects as an excuse to work together. And this most recent project, the album that was just released called Trailblazers is no percussion on this one. Just viola and piano, but they actually aren't viola sonatas. They are cello sonatas that Molly has transcribed for viola. The genesis of the project is kind of funny. Molly was cleaning her house and listening to something on YouTube. And then when the piece she was done listening to finished, YouTube autoplay started playing one of these cello sonatas. I don't remember which one was the first one, but, and she was listening. She's like, wow, this is a really cool cello piece. Like, and then she went and looked at the composer. She's like, I've never heard of this composer. And then the autoplay feature played another one of these cello sonatas by this, you know, not very well-known female composers from the late 19th and early 20th century. And again, so she had, so these 3 pieces came on back to back, and it was the same reaction every time. It's like, why haven't I heard these pieces? And these composers are amazing, and like, I think these would work well on viola maybe. So Molly took it upon herself to transcribe these works for viola, and then she asked me if I'd be interested in performing and recording them with her, which of course I wanted to because it's right up my alley. You know, I love being able to showcase composers like this who have mostly been, you know, in obscurity. And the Bosmans in particular is a piece that really, really spoke to me. It's got that great early 20th century energy. And all of this music is very, it's very accessible, even though two of the pieces are from the early 20th century. They're more backwards looking stylistically. They're more romantic.
And other two female composers you included in the album are Ethel Smith and then Dora Nora Pejacevic. Pejacevic.
And, you know, we're really excited to have a chance to introduce this music to folks who haven't heard it before. You should hear Molly play because this sounds really, really great. Listen to a really good violist. It's an awesome instrument.
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