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His fathers great innovation, he added, was to loose the piano from the confines of the percussion section and make it the belle of the band. The word glamour, which comes from Scots, means magic and enchantment, and for me, certain kinds of music have those qualities. Give me a party where people are having a ball. "I was supposed to die. Born May 23, 1945, in Newark, New Jersey, son of Harry and Bess (ne Goldberg) Duchin. The son of famed swing-era bandleader Eddy Duchin and the liberated Newport blueblood Marjorie Oelrichs, Peter Duchin has led an intriguing and glamorous life: fishing with Hemingway in Idaho, quail-shooting with Jock Whitney in Georgia, fooling around with Paris showgirls on his Right Bank barge, late-night partying with Sinatra and Astaire. I can move it, but somehow the message doesnt get down to my hand from my brain to play, but we found a solution. Now, they talk business, they network. He began skate boarding at the age of nine. Mr. Harriman, in addition to having served on President Harry S. Trumans cabinet, and governor of New York, was also one of the richest men in the country. In 1964, he married Cheray Zauderer, a divorced Manhattan socialite with whom he eventually had three children. Everyone remembers the parties where they danced all night, Mr. Duchin said. Ralph graduated from Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn College and completed his Master's Degree in Geology from the Read More, Joan was born on March 26, 1943 and passed away on Sunday, December 15, 2019. Born in New York City, Mrs. Duchin was a former resident of Liberty, NY, Sarasota, FL, and Monroe Township. PAUL DUCHIN OBITUARY. Arrangements: Orland's Ewing Memorial Chapel, Ewing Twp. I really loved the movie about his father, Eddy Duchin, and it was wonderful that he was able to agree that Tyrone Power was the best actor to be typecast for the role; got to dance and converse with Kim Novak when the movie was made in 1956. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [1], Her paternal grandparents were the former Blanche de Loosey and Charles May Oelrichs, a wealthy broker who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age. Peter Oelrichs Duchin (born July 28, 1937) is an American pianist and band leader. Cherished grandmother of Michael and Logan. Read More, Duchin, Daniel, 78, of Boca Raton, FL, passed away on January 21, 2009. I know no art more atmospheric than the music of Peter Duchin The bandsspecialties are memory and moodthe production of feelings under controlled circumstances. Visitation 5-8 p.m. today and 12-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at BROWN FUNERAL HOME, Belleville. And what can he tell us of glamour, something Duchin has forgotten more about than you or I will ever know? Profile: He is an American pianist and band leader, born July 28, 1937 in New York City, New York. When I opened the hatch and looked up, I saw well-polished shoes, then pinstriped suit pants: there was Averell. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Its All Relative: Filmmaker Michael Glover Smiths Winning New Movie Examines Chicago Family at Crossroads. Funeral services: 1 p.m. Thursday, Congregation Beth Chaim, 329 Village Road, Princeton Junction. I wrote about the irony of Duchin and Peter Beard, friends since they were six years old . Mr. Duchin is that rare party entertainer so at home at a deluxe gala that he holds forth with guests while performing. Read More, MONROE TOWNSHIP -- Meyer M. Duchin, 91, died Tuesday at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick. She lived for 12 years in Stamford, before moving to California, where she died peacefully on December 5, at the age of 100. If you are a fan of the 40s thru the 60s, you'll enjoy the personal stories. This month he is booked at the Blue and Gray Colonels Ball in Montgomery, Ala., in addition to the Metropolitan Operas annual New Years Eve gala. He was chatting while he and his band played The Wanderer, the Dion staple, between conversations with Gay Talese and Mary McFadden, though he might as well have been in his own living room. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the SPCA Read More, Duchin, Mary Kathryn (Nee Kaiser) Age 79, passed away April 13, 2019. Harvey completed high school at West Orange High School, West Orange, N.J. That is how I felt. To receive obit/directions text 1842754 to 414-301-6422. Her cheering section of friends and family were at her side along the course with her AngelsGrace colleagues. The Harrimans became his family. I actually couldn't relate to much of it. In the final section, Duchin reveals how his career and public celebrity were made possible by his brilliant social connections. I took some of my Yale friends over to Central Park where they were filming to see Kim Novak who was playing Marjorie, Duchin said. Duchin's music was much heard on middle of the road radio in the late 1960s and early 1970s from albums and singles released on the Decca, Bell and Capitol labels. "There was a sadness and loneliness to my childhood that I'd repressed," says Duchin. She was born in New York City to the late Frances Stelman Weisbard and Oscar Pomeranz. But in 2013, Duchin suffered a stroke that left him with limited use of his left . But Duchin, the musician of choice for debutante balls and posh private parties, is a charming, down-to-earth chap whose jazzy mien suggests Woody Herman far more than Lester Lanin. I don't give a s-- about who they are. Having entertained presidents, kings, and queens, and serving as Audrey Hepburns chosen date for the Paris Opera Ball, no one knows caf society better. But it was too late to establish warm ties. When he returned, he wanted me to take piano lessons and to set up two pianos so we could play together. Gloria Duchin passed away peacefully, Sunday morning July 31, at her home in Vero Beach, Florida surrounded by her loving family. She had been removed from the New York Social Register for marrying Duchin's father because Eddy Duchin was Jewish; her reaction was reportedly "Who cares? Variations: Viewing All | Peter Duchin. Duchin is a legend twice over, doing the unimaginable, not only recovering from a 2013 stroke but from an astounding 47 days on a ventilator with COVID beginning in March of 2020. www.davidcbrownfh.com Read More, PLATTSBURGH - Harvey Eric Duchin, M.D., of Plattsburgh, N.Y., passed away July 19, 2007, after a long illness. Arrange-ments by BROWN FUNERAL HOME, PLATTSBURGH, NY Read More, Duchin, Esther Nov. 16, 2006, age 86 years. He is survived by his beloved sister Leslie Heller, his brother in law Hugh Heller, and adoring nephews Peter Heller (Jaime) and Roger Heller (Wendy). I asked a friend who had a career as an editor of fashion magazines what she thought about glamour. Four years later, the famous bandleader died of leukemia at age 42. The internationally-famous bandleader Peter Duchin's six decades of performing have taken him to the most exclusive dance floors and concert halls in the world. Dad was shorthand for a series of Eddy Duchin standards that began with Embraceable You and ended with Stormy Weather. He also played his fathers theme song, Chopins Nocturne in E flat. Peter Duchin. Though his uniform most nights is a tuxedo he keeps 15 of them in working order one evening near the end of the summer found him in a fishing jacket and Belgian casuals as he prepared to play a town concert in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs Duchin (June 23, 1908 August 3, 1937) was an American socialite. . He has bookings that go into 1980, and . I like to let my musicians improvise a bit., Mr. Duchin likes modern music and is proud that his band was the first to perform rock n roll at the White House, when he was hired for the weddings of Lyndon Johnsons daughters. Loving sister of several brothers and sisters. Yet I wanted to understand the atmosphere in which Dad and I succeeded, what people thought they saw in us, and why they imagined that dancing to our music could make them glamorous, too. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Im more jazz. Proud mother of Michael (Mary) and Jeffrey (Mary Ellen). He has been married to Virginia Coleman since 2012. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. ", Duchin revisited the scenes of his youth, talked to old friends and visited his mother's grave for the first time. Funeral Mass 10 a.m. Friday at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Belleville. Distraught by the death of his beautiful. Society has changed -- it's no longer based on background or manners; it's based on money.". FROM FACE THE MUSIC, BY PETER DUCHIN WITH PATRICIA BEARD, TO BE PUBLISHED DECEMBER 7 BY DOUBLEDAY. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Although I was also a musician (definitely not famous) and spent a lot of my younger years working in that field, it was not at all close to what he experienced. The celebrated society bandleader has been equally at home in the privileged worlds of money and power and of jazz musicians, bohemians and barmen. In Groups: Peter Duchin, His Piano And Orchestra, Peter Duchin, His Piano And Strings. He graduated from Yale and moved to Paris, meeting the greatest jazz musicians of the 50s and frittering away what was left of his funds. Dear mother of Sue Ellen (Steven) Bergner. Mr. Duchins father, Eddy Duchin, was also a bandleader and was famous for a string of Top 10 records in the 1930s. Politics. Ive come to feel that part of my job is to keep alive the American songbook, he continued, speaking of the jazz and musical-theater standards that were the dominant pop form for nearly half a century, and naming Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Harold Arlen. [1] The band's style and genres have been described as "a musical approach that incorporates big bands, swing and Broadway songs (and nowadays, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll)."[2]. Who, after all, could beat the one about the time Mr. Duchin drove into New York with a number of Yale classmates to watch as a film crew shot The Eddy Duchin Story, in which Tyrone Power and Kim Novak had been cast as his parents? At 59 he's no longer that dashing youth who had an affair in Spain with Ava Gardner, but he's still boyishly handsome. [3], Duchin married Virginia Coleman over the 2012 Memorial Day weekend in East Hampton. There is a soundtrack to this book review. Still, he does wear one almost every night. "People expect you to live up to your father, and be better. His mother, who was thrown out of the New York Social Register for marrying a Jew (to which she responded, "Who cares? Edward was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 66 years, Freddye Mae; his parents, Helen and Bert; step-father, Henry Gross; brother, George; sister, Betty Berg and her husband Sidney Read More, DUCHIN, Ralph Charles In loving memory 88, of Tucson, AZ and Houston, TX passed away on May 25, 2020. Behind the stage he addressed the members of his band, a core group of seven younger musicians. A son was born last Friday to Peter Duchin, the pianist and orchestra leader, and Mrs. Duchin, the former Cheray Zauderer, in the LyingIn Hospital. By now, Peter Duchin's career has lasted longer than his father's. Eddy Duchin died of leukemia in 1951 at age 42. "The only kids to play with were the kids of the help," Duchin recalls. Are you with me so far? Peter Duchin. Peter's mother died of complications from his birth, and he is raised by Averell Harriman (former governor of New York and diplomat) and his wife, Marie. Lets listen. He added, Hes a rare friend who listens well. Peter Duchin, whose new memoir is out now, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in New York City in 1971. Cole always lived life full throttle. He retired as a salesman with Rhulen Insurance Co. and was an Army veteran of World War II. (His father died when Mr. Duchin was 13. Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. The controls are derived from upper-class American etiquette, an association some are put off by[but] Ill take my atmosphere where I can get it The upper crust isnt too low for me Duchins music was as integral to the 1960s as Lou Reeds Velvet Underground Duchin played at the St. Regis; Reed on St. Marks Placebut both were featured on the soundtrack of the city, when New York society was opening up.. But his ultimate success could not have come without real talent and the one legacy he did inherit from his father: a genuine passion for music. After her parents divorce, her father remarried to Madeleine Lucienne Meyer, a daughter of Millius Pierre Meyer, in 1926. Geraldine, affectionately known as Gerry was born in Washington County,. I think that was his life. Peter Duchin, pianist and society bandleader, without one of his 15 tuxedos, rehearsing for a Port Jefferson, N.Y., concert. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. He served in the Navy in WWII and graduated from Emerson College, Boston in 1951. "I didn't know until I was in my 30s how she died," Duchin says. She had a shop in New York and also posed for Lucky Strike.. He said patrons at the Maisonette, where he had his first steady job, gave him a hard time for playing long-hair music.. Peter Duchin was born on July 28, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. Much of the time the writing is bland, but sometimes a truly amusing and not always tasteful bit emerges; theres little to match the excruciating horror of the time Duchin stepped on and crushed a dates pet Yorkie. Theyre more Sinatra, Bobby Darin.. CHURCH Read More, DUCHIN, Meyer M. Of Monroe Township. By 2009, Duchin's band had played at an estimated 6,000 performances.[2]. Duchin, who has three grown children from his first marriage and is today married to writer Brooke Hayward -- her 1977 best-selling memoir, "Haywire," told the story of her famous family's disintegration -- grew up as an outsider despite living within the privileged world of the Harrimans and Vanderbilts. [5], She became the wife of dance bandleader Eddy Duchin after the two met at the Waldorf, and they wed at her mother's apartment at the Hotel Pierre on June 5, 1935, officiated by Judge Vincent Lippe. My father left and I was brought up in this huge castle, with acres of land, lots of servants, horses, polo fields, lakes to fish in, everything you could possibly want and things you wouldn't even consider.". It was probably a way of trying to establish that I had roots in the first place, he said. Here are 10 you cant miss. She told me that it was the happiest night of their lives.. When I had to wear designer suits for magazine shoots, I felt uncomfortable. This is one of the most compulsively readable memoirs I have ever read. In the late 70s through the 80s, when everybody was into show tunes, was probably when I was best known, he said. Highly recommended. That is why I wrote the book, to tell people to not give up, he shared. Skate boarding was like breathing Read More, Arrangements under the direction of Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, Livingston, NJ. In 1947, Eddy Duchin remarried and young Peter moved in with him for the first time. Place of Burial Private. In 1937, however, Marjorie died a week after having given birth to Peter. About music, about style, about survival with a smile. In later life he suffered the unwelcome neglect of his famous stepmother, Pamela . TRAGIC BIRTH It's an irresistible story. After his divorce from Zauderer, in 1985 Duchin married Brooke Hayward, with whom he had been living since 1981. "I wanted to explore the degree of that loneliness.". The young boy was raised primarily by his godparents, the illustrious W. Averell. Her maternal grandparents were Lt. Mr. Duchin was drinking scotch from a heavy cut-glass tumbler (his secretary, Betty Walsh, always carries one for him and one for Roberta Fabiano, his guitarist and singer), dipped cold cuts from a caterers tray into a plastic cup of mustard and had a look at a set-list printout. It was split into several categories Big Band, Dad, Sinatra and, at the end, a handful of sets/songs to be added when we talk it over. These included Slow Big Band, Ellie Greenwich and Society if needed., Society means Cole Porter, Irving Berlin Peters thing but this isnt a society crowd, said Barry Lazarowitz, the bands drummer and musical director. The bandleader Meyer Davis told him: Society people are wonderful, but they have no rhythm., Mr. Davis taught me how to play music for them, which is putting it in 2/4 time, so its basically like a march, he said. Further details may exist on the, Last edited on 21 February 2023, at 15:46, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Discography of American Historical Recordings, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Duchin&oldid=1140747691, This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 15:46. He took his band on the road for months at a time, and Peter, a near-orphan, was taken into the household of Averill Harriman by his wife, Marie, a close childhood friend of the boys late mother. Peter Duchin can tell us a thing or two. David Netto is a writer and interior designer. The Harrimans provided roofs over his head; a governess; a pony; lessons in riding, shooting, fishing and skiing; education at the best schools; and opportunities for travel and socializing with a brilliant array of thinkers, politicians, artists and society types. Mr. Duchin is thick-chested and ruddy-faced, with a mane of sandy hair just on the long side of businesslike. He moved to California in the 50's and worked as an actor. His piano dexterity is mighty., Mark Adamo, the opera composer and a friend of Mr. Duchin, said: He not only grew up with this music, he may well be in some of those lyrics. With the death of his mother shortly after his birth, Peter's father, Eddie Duchin, the nation's premier band leader, was on the road 300 days a year and so he was "adopted"/raised by . Burial: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Iselin. In 1996 he published his memoir, Ghost of a Chance. The Elegant World of Peter Duchin - The Washington Post The Elegant World of Peter Duchin By Lynn Darling September 10, 1978 ANNED AND IN HIS tennis whites, Peter Duchin ambled slowly. Mr. Duchin likes to chalk up his success to a combination of birthright and social profile, invoking not only his background but also that he bolstered his fame by playing small roles, mostly as bandleaders, in a number of movies (including Six Degrees of Separation and Working Girl) and writing mystery novels with a co-author, John Morgan Wilson. His mother was Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island and New York City. hippie fest 2022 michigan; family picture poses for 5 adults; unforgettable who killed rachel; pacific northwest college of art notable alumni; adler sense of belonging family constellation ", The book was co-written by Charles Michener, the music critic and New Yorker senior editor, to help Duchin "find out about the past I knew nothing about. This was a very interesting memoir by the son on the famous Eddy Duchin, pianist and band leader who was popular in the 40's and early 50's. Peter's mother died of complications from his birth, and he is raised by Averell Harriman (former governor of New York and diplomat) and his wife, Marie. Face the Music, out this month and co-written with Patricia Beard, is Duchins moving and deeply personal follow-up. A nice, fluffy memoir with a straight-forward writing style. Actually read this book in hardback. People ate it up when Mr. Duchin paused between numbers to tell stories from his past. Duchin explores what "glamour" and "society" once meant, and what they mean now. She Read More, MARY DUCHIN was for 50 years a much-loved English teacher at Bayonne High School in Bayonne, NJ. Read More, Naomi A. Duchin EWING - Naomi A. Duchin, 91, passed away Saturday, May 4, 2013. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. "When somebody gets jobs before he's worked his way up the ladder he'd better be good," says Duchin, a decent pianist who long ago learned to scope out a crowd and hit the tempo to get folks dancing. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs Duchin (June 23, 1908 - August 3, 1937) was an American socialite. I dont care. A lot of adults arent very graceful when they try to dance like kids, he said. In a sense, I was envious of the connections he had, the people he knew, the opportunities and the travel he experienced. We played all night just for the couple celebrating their 60th anniversary. Mr. Duchin, right, with Liz Smith and Tommy Tune at this years New York Landmarks Conservancy fund-raiser. During the years he performed at the glitzy Central Park Casino, Eddy Duchin entertained the cream of New York society, but he was never of it. He married Marjorie, a tall, brainy and extroverted society girl who didnt complain that she was kicked out of the Social Register when she married Eddy. The diagnosis was a clogged lung, likely caused by a recent bout of pneumonia, and, in that laughable phrase, routine surgery was scheduled to clear the blockage. Lets conclude the soundtrack with Make Someone Happy, the theme song of Peter Duchins orchestra. When I came along, there were a dozen clubs in town to play, places like El Morocco and the Maisonette in the St. Regis, where people would go to dance, Mr. Duchin said. Reading Time: 3 minutes. During WWII she worked as a clerk for the U.S. Army Air Force in Waco where Read More, Carole passed away in April 2012. It was time to earn a living, she said. [1], Duchin formed his first professional band, which played the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, in 1962 thanks in part to his family name and the networking it had made possible. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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