CSO Brass Players  Answer ‘What’s on Your Playlist?’

Music is central at the CSO, but we all have eclectic tastes. Fanfare Magazine asked the Orchestra’s brass section, “What’s on your playlist?”

Christopher Kiradjieff
Trumpet
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue and Birth of the Cool

Elizabeth Freimuth
Principal Horn
Mary M. & Charles F. Yeiser Chair
When I’m not working, I don’t spend a lot of time alone, so my playlist is strongly influenced by my 10- and 12-year-old daughters or whatever I feel like exercising to—Taylor Swift, the soundtracks to the Broadway musicals Wicked and Six, or anything from the 80s that takes me back in time to high school dances!!

Alexander Pride
Trumpet
Otto M. Budig Family Foundation Chair
A little bit of everything! A taste of my favorite composers, artists and songs, as well as some music from some of our upcoming concerts.
Listen to Alex's Apple Music playlist.

Duane Dugger
Horn
Mary & Joseph S. Stern, Jr. Chair
Johnny Cash: “Hurt”; Brandon Lake: “Gratitude”; Rush: “Tom Sawyer” and ”Limelight”; Triumph: “Fight the Good Fight” and “Lay It on the Line”; John Williams: “Dorinda Solo Flight” from Always (played by the Cincinnati Pops); Respighi: Pines of Rome; Billy Joel: “Just the Way You Are,” “She’s Always a Woman to Me” and “She’s Got a Way”; Rod Stewart: You’re in My Heart and “Tonight’s the Night”; Christina Perri: “A Thousand Years”; Davis Leonard: “Light a Fire”; Led Zeppelin: “Stairway to Heaven”; and Hillsong UNITED: “Oceans.”

Joseph Rodriguez
Second/Assistant Principal Trombone
Sallie Robinson Wadsworth & Randolph L. Wadsworth Jr. Chair
German Brass, Chicago Trombone Consort, Berlin Philharmonic, Strauss: Alpine Symphony, Wagner: Ring Cycle, Jimmy Bosch, Eva Cassidy and Norah Jones.