Woodland Sketches

Woodland Sketches, op. 51, remains the most famous work from American late-Romantic composer Edward MacDowell and a favorite of pianists. Here orchestrated from the original piano version to small chamber orchestra (min. 12 players), the work includes the plaintive "To a Wild Rose," based on a Brotherton Native American melody and later adapted by Nat King Cole. These 10 vignettes, performable in whole or in part, spray of color, from the graceful "Water-lily" to the stately "Indian Lodge" or the dancing "Uncle Remus." approx. 17 min.