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Biography
Eastwood Lane (May 22, 1879 & ndash; January 22, 1951) was an United States|American composer who wrote piano suites and ballet music.
Eastwood Lane was born in Brewerton, New York .
His compositions for piano include In Sleepy Hollow (1913), Five American Dances (1919), Adirondack Sketches (1922), Mongoliana (1922), Eastern Seas (1925), Sold Down the River (1928), Pantomimes (1933), Fourth of July (1935), Here Are Ladies (1944), ''Jesuit's Journey (1947), Central Park , Colonial Suite , Flower of Old Japan , Knee-High to a Grasshopper . Three of his pieces, "Sea Burial", "Persimmon Pucker", and "Minuet for Betty Schuyler", were arranged by Ferde Grofe for the orchestra of Paul Whiteman .
Lane's most popular piano suite is Adirondack Sketches . The titles of its six pieces are "The Old Guide's Story", "The Legend of Lonesome Lake", "Down Stream", "The Land of the Loon", "A Dirge for Jo Indian", and "Lumber-Jack Dance". These pieces had an influence on jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke 's piano compositions.
Publications
Norman P. Gentieu, "Eastwood Lane", Journal of Jazz Studies , Spring 1976, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 58-84.
External links
http://www.angelfire.com/ks/landzastanza/index.html#lane MIDI sequences of "In Sleepy Hollow" (1913), "Five American Dances" (1919), "Adirondack Sketches" (1922)
Persondata | NAME = Lane, Eastwood | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = May 22, 1879 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = January 22, 1951 | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Lane, Eastwood Category:1879 births Category:1951 deaths Category:American composers
