Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Lane, Eastwood, 1879-1951. |
| Title: | Eastwood Lane Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1899-1929 |
| Quantity: | 2.5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, musical compositions, writings of the New York State composer. Majority of material is undated. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Eastwood Lane (1879-1951) was an American composer from New York State. His compositions include piano suites, impressionist pieces, and ballet; perhaps his best-known piece is Adirondack Sketches.
The Eastwood Lane Papers consists of biographical material, correspondence, musical compositions, writings, sketches (2 items), printed material and memorabilia.
The small amount of Correspondence, most of which is undated, contains single letters from composers William Berwald, Charles Huerter, and Deems Taylor, contemporaries and friends of Lane. The largest group of outgoing correspondence is by Lane to soprano Modena Scovill Lane, his wife. Many of these were written from Lane's Adirondack home and discuss the natural surroundings as well as local events and news.
Musical compositions is by far the largest component of this collection. Some pieces are in sketch form, others in published format. Only a very few will be represented in both, thus making research on the development of a theme from sketch to publication difficult.
Writings are, for the most part, by Lane, including published articles and samples of his "Wind and percussion" column.
Printed materials are divided into the following: by and about Lane; advertisements for Lane works; Wanamaker concert programs; other programs, and miscellaneous clippings.
Memorabilia includes diaries and address books, photographs (Lane, M.S. Lane, others) and a scrapbook.
Correspondence is subdivided into incoming and outgoing. Musical compositions are arranged in alphabetical order by title. Writings, published material, and memorabilia are arranged alphabetically.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Eastwood Lane Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin E. Dunham.
Created by: CAD
Date: Jul 1986
Revision history: Jun 2009 - converted to EAD (MRC)
| Biographical material | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gentieu, Norman P. "Eastwood Lane" in Journal of jazz studies, Spring 1976. | ||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Outgoing | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | SEL to Modena Scovill Lane undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | SEL to Louey | ||||||||||
| Incoming | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Berwald, William | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Huerter, Charles | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Taylor, Deems | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Incoming and outgoing | ||||||||||
| Musical compositions | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Abelard & Heloise (from Pantomimes) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Blue-robed mandarins | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Boston fancy | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Calm lake & quiet lovers (from Central Park Suite) | ||||||||||
| Canoe | |||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | A corporal's ballad | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Crap shooter (a Negro dance) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Downstream | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Eastern seas | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Elfin knight | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fourth of July parade (sketch) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Gay occasion | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Gray winds, dream laden | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Great and glorious | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Great white way | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | A gringo tango | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Gringo dance/In Sleepy Hollow | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Harlem town | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | I'm in love with a girl from the country | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | In Sleepy Hollow | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Incidental - Berceuse | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Jesuit's journey | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Joanne (formerly Mary) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Katrina's waltz | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Knee high to a grasshopper | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Knee high/Serenade for Mme. Chiang Kai-shek | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Lady Jane Grey | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lady of The Palankeen | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Little boys sail little boats | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Liza | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lovers by the lake, Central Park sketches | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | March-sketch | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Mid-afternoon serenade | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Minuet to Betty Schuyler | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Moon (?) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | North of Boston | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Overlooking Harlem (fragment) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Parade (Fourth of July) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Persimmon pucker | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Plymouth in Autumn | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Polonaise | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Round the hall (dance hall ditty) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Sand shuffle, an American dance | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Sea burial (early sketch), also Persimmon pucker | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Shropshire lass | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Sold down the river | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Song for Ann Rutledge, also Lines for Ann Rutledge | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Summer glow | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Swanee | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | On Tappan Zee, a boat song | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | They've hung Bill Jones | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Time of golden dreams | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Tune to the moon | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Watch on the village green (Fourth of July suite) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | When whip willer sings | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Notebooks (3 volumes) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fragments and unidentified sketches (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Fragments and unidentified sketches, oversize (1 folder) | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Adirondacks | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Bill McAleese | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Music record and opera news (4 articles) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Musicians club monthly Sept. 1915 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Opera news (2 articles) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Poems | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Psycho-pianism, a contemporary musical fantasy" Musical America, 7 Nov 1914 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Troubadour en route" Musical America, v.49 n.13 1929 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Wind and percussion" (column) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Writings of others (unidentified) | ||||||||||
| Sketches | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | By Lane? (2 items) | ||||||||||
| Printed material | |||||||||||
| Source material | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | By Lane | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | About Lane | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Advertisements for Lane works | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Programs, Wanamaker | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Programs, non-Wanamaker | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous clippings, etc. (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Diaries and address books circa 1899-1919 (11 volumes) | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Eastwood Lane | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Modena Scovill | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Modena Scovill , oversize | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Ted Shawn & Ruth St. Davis | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Piano Deco: Mike Polad plays American music of the 1920s, Eastwood Lane, Bix Biederbecke, Rube Bloom (1 CD, 1 audiocassette) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Oversize 4 | Scrapbook (2 folders) | ||||||||||
