Lane Eastwood. In Sleepy Hollow for piano

New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1915. — 32 p.In Sleepy Hollow;
On Tappan Zee (a Boat Song);
Mid-October Afternoon (Reverie);
Katrina's Waltz.The New York composer (Sidney) Eastwood Lane (1879-1951) is remembered for a series of piano suites that somehow provided a bridge between the music of MacDowell and Nevin and the jazz age, and Lane had a very quirky style of writing. His later 'Adirondack Sketches' was a favourite of Bix Biederbecke. The harmony in this 1913 suite becomes more and more unexpected as the suite progresses. The opening piece is very conventional, but the key changes and underlying harmony of the last piece, the waltz, are surprising, and almost disconcerting. All of the pieces are prefaced by quotations from Washington Irving's works - 'The Castle of Indolence' (first piece) and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' (the others). The work is dedicated to Alexander Russell, for whom Lane worked for a time at Princeton University.
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