I just see fewer parties where people want a traditional dance band, he said over lunch at the Century Association, his Midtown club. One of Peters most endearing qualities has always been that hes the kind of guy who can talk to anyone, and who, importantly, is actually interested in almost anyones conversation regardless of their station in life, their job, their background, or their social or political connections. Face the Music: A Memoir by Peter Duchin with Patricia Beard. On February 9, 1951, Eddy Duchin died at age 41 at Memorial Hospital in Manhattan of acute myelogenous leukemia. Imagine, if you were walking down the street, and you suddenly passed your mother and you didnt recognize her, and she didnt recognize you? Duchin's mother died in childbirth. It was in this period that I finally got to know them in a way. 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. Last month he played the Living Landmarks fund-raiser for the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Charity Ball for debutantes at the Union League Club in Philadelphia. Variations: Viewing All | Peter Duchin. [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]. In the 1996 memoir Ghost of a Chance, his son Peter wrote of the factual discrepancies in the film The Eddy Duchin Story . Sure, the rich and famous are different from you and me, as F. Scott Fitzgerald might have put it: Thats because their friends have excuses to write gossipy books like this. In 1947, Eddy Duchin remarried and young Peter moved in with him for the first time. He retired as a salesman with Rhulen Insurance Co. and was an Army veteran of World War II. They get up, they stay up.. She was born August 18, 1924 in Waco, TX to Sol and Stella Ashendorf. Like I said at the beginning, it was interesting, not great. The young boy was raised primarily by his godparents, the illustrious W. Averell. "C.D OELRICHS WEDS MADELINE MILLIUS; New York Stock Broker, 44, Marries Daughter of Late Paris Perfumer, 23. 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. She told me that it was the happiest night of their lives.. And we can forgive them because they pass the good times on to us. Over the years Mr. Duchin, as both pianist and bandleader, has provided the musical entertainment at an estimated 6,000 celebrations. Freddye was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Devoted mother of Michael, Jr. and Jason. Beloved wife for 58 year to the late Edward. He had just spent 20 minutes rehearsing a number with Liz Smith, the gossip columnist and the events honorary chairwoman. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Forced to live in an oxygen tent for more than a year, baby Peter was taken to Arden, the vast New York estate of the couple who raised him in aristocratic style -- patrician statesman Averell Harriman and his wife Marie, Marjorie Duchin's best friend. Duchins books, including his latest, Face the Music, are available wherever fine books are sold. 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. Duchins parents, Eddy Duchin and Marjorie Oelrichs, photographed by Cecil Beaton. Mary was a resident of Delafield, Wisconsin at the time of passing Read More, Paul Duchin Dearest brother and uncle, 76 Paul Duchin, 76, of Livingston, N.J., passed away on Jan. 28, 2018, after a short illness. After both recoveries, I would throw balls around with the patients in wheelchairs and then when the doctors came in, we would all through the balls at them. There was no trust fund waiting for him, no inherited position at a Wall Street law firm or investment bank. 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. Peter Duchin was born on 28 July 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. His second wife, from whom he recently separated, was the actress Brooke Hayward. 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. By 2009, Duchin's band had played at an estimated 6,000 performances.[2]. 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. 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. Of course not. Right. I never have, and I agree that glamour, whatever that once meant, has pretty much disappeared. He was vice president of the Rhulen Insurance Company before retiring and served in the U Read More, Meyer M. Duchin, 91, formerly of Sarasota, died at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J. An avid student, Sally graduated with a PhD in Allied Health Read More, Sally Pomeranz Duchin 1933-2022 In loving memory of Sally Pomeranz Duchin, 88, of Tucson, AZ and Houston, TX, passed away on February 1, 2022. Freddye was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Ron Galella // Getty Images From the time I began at the Maisonette, newspapers and magazines. Arrange-ments by BROWN FUNERAL HOME, PLATTSBURGH, NY Read More, Duchin, Esther Nov. 16, 2006, age 86 years. She died peacefully on December 5, 2009 at the age of 100 in California, where she has lived for the past 12 years. Service Private. A lot of adults arent very graceful when they try to dance like kids, he said. All along, he had just been a rich little poor boy, whose trust from his father was barely enough to cover basic expenses and fine schooling. I owed it to myself and to her to try to find out more), but victories over a stroke and a near-death brush with Covid have made Duchin a sunnier and more philosophical writer than ever. Distraught by the death of his beautiful wife and the expected loss of his newborn son, Eddy Duchin abandoned the scene to lose himself in his music. While at Yale, Duchin decided to take a junior year abroad to study French at the Sorbonne. Really never heard of Peter or his father, but was pulled into the period. 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. 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. Peter Duchin, whose new memoir is out now, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in New York City in 1971. At this years Landmarks Conservancy event, which was honoring Robert Morgenthau and Tommy Tune among others, Mr. Duchin pointed out that not only was his band providing the music for the 13th time, but that he had also been selected as a living landmark back in 1996. Dear grandmother of Mark (Jacki) and Katie Bergner. Politics. Peter Duchin. Mr. Duchin was an engineer with Gloria Duchin Read More, DUCHIN Freddye Mae Duchin age 87 of San Antonio passed away Thursday, May 31, 2012. Opinion. Behind the stage he addressed the members of his band, a core group of seven younger musicians. Loving grandfather of Rachel, Hillel, Elana, Yitzchak, Bracha, Rena, Batya, Austin Duchin, and Adam Burt Shapiro. Reposing at Colonial Funeral Home, 2819 Hylan Blvd., corner of Tysens Lane on Saturday and Read More, Area Death Notice Duchin, Daniel, 78, of Boca Raton, died Wednesday. Hes intuitive and observant and has that natural driving curiosity. Theres a whiff of old-time romance here and a few scraps of meaty gossip (the juiciest about Pamela Harriman in her more mercenary days). The newborn Peter Duchin was fortunate in that a friend of his mother and father, Marie Harriman, the wife of Averell, took over the care and ultimately the upbringing of the baby boy. Except No Mother. Really enjoyed it. That should have made it clear that something very bad was going on. But I wasnt tracking much, except for the sound of a machine that constantly emitted an extremely irritating beep-beep just off A-flat., Or, subscribe to AIR MAIL and receive full access today. She was a society girl, growing up at Rose Cliff in Newport, but she wanted to work. Mr. Duchin, the celebrated orchestra leader, plays at weddings, bar mitzvahs bank openings, charity balls, proms. Read More, Naomi A. Duchin EWING - Naomi A. Duchin, 91, passed away Saturday, May 4, 2013. That crowd knows he speaks their language better than they do, and hell play against it too, which is fun., There are genuine chops beneath the charmed and charming persona, Mr. Feinstein said. "The only kids to play with were the kids of the help," Duchin recalls. Peter Oelrichs Duchin (born July 28, 1937) is an American pianist and band leader. Its only a telephone book.. He spent time in Paris, France and studied at the Sorbonne before returning home and graduating from Yale University. He has served on the boards of American Ballet Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Spoleto Festival USA, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the board of Trustees for the Glimmerglass Opera of Cooperstown, New York, the Advisory Council for the American Russian Youth Orchestra, the National Jazz Service Organization, the World Policy Institute, and the Citizens Committee For New York City. Read More, Services 1 p.m. at the Ira Kaufman Chapel, 248-569-0020. 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. She enjoyed music, knitting, crocheting, cooking and baking. Peter Duchin, the pianist and society bandleader, was headed home from a post-theater dinner in the fall of 2013 when the chest pains began. In 2008 Hayward and Duchin announced their separation, and they eventually divorced. Devoted mother of Anita Wornick & her husband Ronald, Howard Lev & his wife Susan, Peter Lev, the Read More, Alice Lev Duchin (Zablotsky), age 97, of Roslindale, formerly of Chelsea and Malden, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. 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. His mother was Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island and New York City socialite who died unexpectedly when he was just five days old. His mother, who was thrown out of the New York Social Register for marrying a Jew (to which she responded, "Who cares? Peter Oelrichs Duchin (born July 28, 1937) is an American pianist and band leader . I got this book on nook because it covered a period of time that is more of my parents who were born in the 20s. Maybe the finest autobiography that have read. To wit, although his band played the inaugural balls and White House dinners of every president from Lyndon B. Johnson through Bill Clinton, he didnt perform for George W. Bush and hasnt been asked by President Obama. No one is glamorous anymore, she said. The family would like Read More, Of Milton, on Friday, October 13, 2006. (His father died when Mr. Duchin was 13. When we arrived, we found just one table set for two in the center of the room. Peter ended up being raised amid extraordinary wealth and privilege by his godparents, W. Averell and Marie Harriman. Reading Time: 3 minutes. Indeed, Duchin grew up feeling entitled to these luxuries. . He served in the Navy in WWII and graduated from Emerson College, Boston in 1951. I think he had heard I was having too much fun in Paris, Duchin remembered. Before his concert in Port Jefferson Mr. Duchin instructed his musicians to play something other than rock n roll, because they really look forward to this, and they will dance. The town, after all, had hired him a couple of times before to play this event, and a lot of older rug cutters turned out. Source for information on Duchin, Peter (Oelrichs) 1937 . Dear grandfather of 10 and great-grandfather Read More, Submit an obit for publication in any local newspaper and on Legacy. But when Duchin awoke after the procedure, I was caught in a nest of tubes and plastic bags, with wires attached to my fingers, my arms, my legs and my chest, he writes in his new book, Face the Music (co-authored by Patricia Beard), a follow-up of sorts to his 1996 memoir, Ghost of a Chance. They got loose. 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. While in the Navy, Eddy Duchin visited Peter and Marie Harriman, who helped raise Peter. It's an irresistible story. His mother was Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island and New York City socialite who died unexpectedly when he was just five days old. Great-grandmother Read More, MARY DUCHIN CALIFORNIA Mary Duchin lived most of her adult life in Bayonne, NJ, where for 50 years she was a muchloved Enlish teacher at Bayonne High School. Give me a party where people are having a ball. 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. Born in New York City, Mrs. Duchin was a former resident of Liberty, NY, Sarasota, FL, and Monroe Township. "There was a sadness and loneliness to my childhood that I'd repressed," says Duchin. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Duchin's mother died in childbirth. The phrase "society bandleader" has a snooty ring to it. We asked Chicagoan Jay Tunney, whose book about his own famous father, boxer Gene Tunney, and his fathers close friend, the author George Bernard Shaw, is being adapted into a play by Theater Wit called Shaw vs. Tunney, to share a little about Duchin: Peter is my oldest friend, dating from childhood when we played on the beach in Hobe Sound, Florida, during World War II, and hes never changed. 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The legendary bandleaders first memoir, .css-gegin5{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#9a0500;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-gegin5:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}Ghost of a Chance, delivered memorable storytelling and anthropological information on a lost world, its customs, and its language: [Marie Harriman] may have coined the expression rat-fuck, which is what she called parties that were too big. Our mission is to get Southern California reading and talking. During his recovery period, his bed was moved into his downstairs study, his wife placing beloved Cecil Beaton photos of his parents right onto the bookcase for him to look at daily. Born with a respiratory illness, Duchin was given only two weeks to live. Ronald was a resident of Mc Lean, Virginia. Duchin used to be offended by the "society" label. But when he goes . Hes capitalized on the social thing, but he goes a lot further than social I would certainly hope so, the actress and singer Elaine Stritch said recently during a rehearsal break at the Caf Carlyle. Peter Duchin appeared on the cover of Town & Country in August 1965, when he and his band had a regular gig at the Maisonette in New York. SHE WEARS TAFFETA GOWN Wedding Trip Will Be Combined With Bridegroom's Concert Tour Across Continent", "MARJORIE DUCHIN DIES AT AGE OF 29; Former Miss Oelrichs, Wife of Orchestra Leader, Succumbs in Hospital Here", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marjorie_Oelrichs&oldid=1139987038, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 21:44. When I opened the hatch and looked up, I saw well-polished shoes, then pinstriped suit pants: there was Averell. As a child, Duchin's nurse and governess kept scrapbooks about his family but cut out all references to how his mother had died. Proud mother of Michael (Mary) and Jeffrey (Mary Ellen). 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. David Netto. 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? There is a soundtrack to this book review. Mr. Duchin cut his engagement schedule by half when he turned 70 two years ago, so that he now plays around 60 gigs a year, but he's still a visible presence on the fall and holiday benefit. When I moved to Asia, he came over to visit me, and he was the first to greet me back home. However, it's pretty clear that this man thinks way too much of himself and has traded on his father's reputation for a good part of his life. Devoted mother of Anita Wornick & her husband Ronald, Howard Lev & his wife Susan, Peter Lev, Read More, DUCHIN, DAVID MICHAEL, of Providence and Vero Beach, Florida, died on Tuesday, November 13, 2012. He could have been inspired by something that happened when he was in Eddy Duchins living room.. I want to be exciting enough to get them to do that, but not intrusive., The singer and pianist Michael Feinstein, a friend who has put in his share of nights playing parties, said, The music Peter plays is music to entertain and make people feel wonderful at parties and events that would and will suffer tremendously without it.. She lived for 12 years in Stamford, before moving to California, where she died peacefully on December 5, at the age of 100. Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapel, Deerfield Beach. Harvey was born in Newark, N.J., on July 12, 1938, son of Harry and Bessie (Goldberg) Duchin. But in 2013, Duchin suffered a stroke that left him with limited use of his left . Dear father of Paul Duchin, Neal (Chaya) Duchin, Steven (Paula) Duchin and the late Burt Alan Duchin. Early on in his career, Duchin appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the longest-running and most popular variety show ever. If anyone is interested in family dynamics, music (Mr. Duchin is a society bandleader), following the story of his father Eddy Duchin, or life in America chiefly in New York for the period 1950-going forward. Visitation Tue., Nov. 21, 2006 at CHURCH AND CHAPEL FUNERAL HOME (1 block south of I-94, corner of Hwy J and JJ) from 4:30PM until time of Services at 5PM. But he wasnt raised by family. Cherished grandmother of Michael and Logan. Tunney said they were alike in that both had famous fathers and grew up in homes of privilege, but that didnt define them. See the article in its original context from. But he generally plays down the similarities between his musical aesthetic and his fathers, beyond their affinity for certain kinds of songs and his habit of crossing his hands over one another while playing, a flourish meant as a tribute to his fathers style. [2] Her paternal aunt was poet and playwright Michael Strange. Made you see how interconnected the mover and shakers were. 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. It is even more difficult to define, and, unlike pornography, the real thing is rare. He had just played Lyndon Johnson's inauguration,. I know no art more atmospheric than the music of Peter Duchin The bandsspecialties are memory and moodthe production of feelings under controlled circumstances. As he recovered, Duchin studied the photos of his parentshere with his father, Eddyto try to get more insight into their brief lives. 2021 PETER DUCHIN, This story appears in the December 2021/January 2022 issue of Town & Country. Read More, Duchin , Betty L. Belleville, MI Age 84, died Sunday at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor. 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. The colt became one of only four racehorses to win both the U.S. West Coast's Santa Anita Handicap and the East Coast's Woodward Stakes. Peter Duchin has a closet full of clothes and almost all of them are tuxedos. DUCHIN, Peter (Oelrichs) 1937-PERSONAL: Born July 28, 1937, in New York, NY; son of Eddy Duchin (a pianist) and Marjorie (Oelrichs) Duchin; married Cheray Zauderer, June 22, 1964 (divorced, 1982); married Brooke Hayward (an actress and writer), December 24, 1985; children: (first marriage) Jason Edwin, Courtnay Oelrichs, Colin Zauderer. Porters lyrics were never better than when he was talking about the international glamour set. So many names dropped I skipped through whole paragraphs. A good break between heavier things. Duchin explores what "glamour" and "society" once meant, and what they mean now. The child, the couple's third, has been. 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. The period orchestra leader, plays at weddings, bar mitzvahs bank openings, charity balls, proms 's had! 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