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your latest album called Trailblazers with the violist Molly.

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How do you pronounce her last name?

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Yes, good for you for asking because people usually don't get it right the first time.

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It's Molly Gebrian. Molly and I met when we were like 15 at a summer music camp.

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So we've been friends forever and we have very rarely actually been in the same place at the same

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time, but we really like collaborating. So we've created a couple of projects as an excuse to work

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together. And this most recent project, the album that was just released called Trailblazers,

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no percussion on this one. It's just viola and piano, but they actually aren't viola sonatas.

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They are cello sonatas that Molly has transcribed for viola. The genesis of the project is kind of

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funny. Molly was cleaning her house and listening to something on YouTube. And then when the piece

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she was done listening, YouTube autoplay started playing one of these cello sonatas.

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I don't remember which one was the first one, but she was listening and she was like,

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wow, this is a really cool cello piece. And then she went and looked at the composers like,

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I've never heard of this composer. And then the autoplay feature played another one of these

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cello sonatas by this not-very well-known female composers from the late 19th and early 20th century.

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And again, so these three pieces came on back to back and it was the same reaction every time.

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It's like, why haven't I heard these pieces? And these composers are amazing. And like,

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I think these would work well on Viola maybe. So Molly took it upon herself to transcribe these

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works for Viola. And then she asked me if I'd be interested in performing and recording them with

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her, which of course I was, I wanted to, because it's right up my alley. I love being able to

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showcase composers like this who have mostly been in obscurity. And the Bozmans in particular is a

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piece that really, really spoke to me. It's got that great early 20th-century energy. And all of

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this music is very, it's very accessible. Even though two of the pieces are from the early

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20th century, they're more backward-looking stylistically. They're more romantic.

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And other two female composers you included in the album are Ethel Smith and then Dora.

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Dora Pajacevic.

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Pajacevic.

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And you know, we're really excited to have a chance to introduce this music

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to folks who haven't heard it before. You should hear Molly play because it sounds really,

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really great. Listen to her, a really good violist. It's an awesome instrument.

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For our listeners, please check out Danny's latest album, Trailblazers on acisproductions.com.

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If you haven't listened to the first half of this fantastic episode with Danny Holt,

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