The Hildegard Publishing Company presents music of women composers, past and present. Marion Bauer dedicated "Up the Ocklawaha" to violinist Maud Powell, who premiered the work in 1912. The story goes that Powell, to reach a city on her Florida concert itinerary, had to travel upriver and spent "a night on the Ocklawaha, a stream so narrow that the little boat in which she rode had to keep a straight line so as not to run aground." Powell wrote a poem about her experience, which she asked Bauer to commit to music. The work is highly original and carries vivid tone-pictures.