Mountain Song for tuba and piano | Brian Ciach | score video
Mountain Song is a musical tone poem of a powerful yet yielding instrument–the tuba–playing lyrical, angular, and sustained melodies that mimic the contour and character of a mountain. This piece was commissioned by Paul Carlson, and received its world premiere at my Doctoral Composition Recital at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Bloomington, IN) in 2010, Paul Carlson, tuba, Brian Ciach, piano.