Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. The family would like Read More, Of Milton, on Friday, October 13, 2006. Duchin was born in New York City, the son of pianist and band leader Eddy Duchin. 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. A maternal aunt was suffragist Alison Turnbull Hopkins. 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. Depending on the scale of a gig, the band can consist of as few as five (not including Mr. Duchin) and as many as 45. These days class lines are so blurred. She was born August 18, 1924 in Waco, TX to Sol and Stella Ashendorf. David Netto is a writer and interior designer. 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. I wrote about the irony of Duchin and Peter Beard, friends since they were six years old . My father was a ghost to me. 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. See the article in its original context from. Services Wednesday, see last Wednesdays paper or visit funeral home website for complete notice. She was a society girl, growing up at Rose Cliff in Newport, but she wanted to work. Anyone can read what you share. He added, Hes a rare friend who listens well. (His father died when Mr. Duchin was 13. Opinion. Reading Time: 3 minutes. But in 2013, Duchin suffered a stroke that left him with limited use of his left . Dear grandfather of 10 and great-grandfather Read More, Submit an obit for publication in any local newspaper and on Legacy. concerts, tea dances and debutante parties. Right. "I wanted to explore the degree of that loneliness.". She is survived by her daughters, Faye Duchin of Stamford and Read More, Evelyn Duchin on April 2, 2009. Really enjoyed it. 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. Peter Duchin, whose new memoir is out now, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in New York City in 1971. TRAGIC BIRTH It's an irresistible story. Born in New York, NY on July 11, 1939, he was the son of the late Benjamin and Helen (Pearlman) Duchin. Marjorie was born on June 23, 1908 and was daughter of Marjorie Ramely Oelrichs (ne Turnbull; 18831952) and Charles de Loosey Oelrichs (18821973). In essence, I was introduced to the world of the rich, the famous, the influential from Peter Duchin's perspective. Everyone from Frank Sinatra and Ernest Hemingway to Jackie and Ari Onassis makes an appearance in the course of Duchins star-studded story. 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. Dear sister of the late Nettie Miller and Harold Miller. In the extended version of the story, recounted in his 1996 memoir Ghost of a Chance (written with Charles Michener), Mr. Duchin spends a night on the town with Ms. Novak and stumbles back to his room in the Harrimans apartment at 6 a.m., having gotten as close to Oedipal ecstasy as Ill ever know., As an adult, Mr. Duchin said, it was meaningful for him to learn about his fathers legacy before taking up the musical life himself. Though Duchin is treated in public as a celebrity, he is far more complex than just that one identity. ), I walked up to Kim Novak from behind, put my arms around her, gave her a kiss on the ear and said, Hi, Mom, Mr. Duchin recalled. Hes intuitive and observant and has that natural driving curiosity. She was singing Its High Time from the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Later, at the bar, Mr. Duchin was asked what he made of Ms. Smiths singing voice. Are you with me so far? Born May 23, 1945, in Newark, New Jersey, son of Harry and Bess (ne Goldberg) Duchin. "They didn't want me to blame myself.". She told me that it was the happiest night of their lives.. Peter Duchin has a closet full of clothes and almost all of them are tuxedos. 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. He has a four yearold brother, Jason, and a sister, Courtney, who is two and a half. He spent time in Paris, France and studied at the Sorbonne before returning home and graduating from Yale University. [2] Her paternal aunt was poet and playwright Michael Strange. "There was a sadness and loneliness to my childhood that I'd repressed," says Duchin. Kim Novak portrayed Oelrichs in the 1956 biopic The Eddy Duchin Story with Tyrone Power as Duchin. Ron Galella // Getty Images From the time I began at the Maisonette, newspapers and magazines. P eter Duchin, the pianist and society bandleader, was headed home from a post-theater dinner in the fall of 2013 when the chest pains began. Duchin's riveting new book. They got loose. 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. She lived for 12 years in Stamford, before moving to California, where she died peacefully on December 5, at the age of 100. Born with a respiratory illness, Duchin was given only two weeks to live. 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. Beloved wife of the late Samuel Lev and the late Martin Gates. We played all night just for the couple celebrating their 60th anniversary. In the succeeding decades,. Anyway, who cares?. 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. 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. In his own recovery, Duchin spent many months fitting pennies into a piano-shaped bank to strengthen his left hand, which was affected by the stoke. 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. Family (1) Spouse Virginia Coleman (2012 - present) He wanted to make a big effort to get close to me, but it never happened. An avid student, Sally graduated with a PhD in Allied Read More, Joel Bruce Duchin Highland Heights, KY - Joel Bruce Duchin, age 75, of Highland Heights Kentucky died Tuesday, January 19th at his home after a courageous battle with brain cancer. After her parents divorce, her father remarried to Madeleine Lucienne Meyer, a daughter of Millius Pierre Meyer, in 1926. Visitation 5-8 p.m. today and 12-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday at BROWN FUNERAL HOME, Belleville. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Face the Music: A Memoir by Peter Duchin with Patricia Beard. 2021 PETER DUCHIN, This story appears in the December 2021/January 2022 issue of Town & Country. Distraught by the death of his beautiful. 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. Peter Duchin was born in New York City in 1937, the only child of his handsome father, Eddy, and his attractive socialite wife, Marjorie Oelrichs. Peter Duchin, pianist and society bandleader, without one of his 15 tuxedos, rehearsing for a Port Jefferson, N.Y., concert. Loving wife of the late Raymond A. Duchin. He could have been inspired by something that happened when he was in Eddy Duchins living room.. But he wasnt raised by family. His single "Star Dust" reached No. The diagnosis was a clogged lung, likely caused by a recent bout of pneumonia, and, in that . "It's an amazing story," says Duchin over lunch at the Huntington Hotel. In the late 70s through the 80s, when everybody was into show tunes, was probably when I was best known, he said. Mr. Duchin is often called a society bandleader, a term that refers to his clientele but also signifies a musical approach that incorporates big bands, swing and Broadway songs (and nowadays, old-fashioned rock n roll). Geraldine, affectionately known as Gerry was born in Washington County,. 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. Certainly a book about the rich and famous especially in the 30s-60s. When I decided to write a book on my father, he was the first to encourage me, as I encouraged him when he wrote his first book, he recalled. The celebrated society bandleader has been equally at home in the privileged worlds of money and power and of jazz musicians, bohemians and barmen. Over the years Mr. Duchin, as both pianist and bandleader, has provided the musical entertainment at an estimated 6,000 celebrations. A Son, Their 3d Child, Born to Peter Duchins, https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/23/archives/a-son-their-3d-child-born-to-peter-duchins.html. Indeed, Duchin grew up feeling entitled to these luxuries. Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapel, Deerfield Beach. She Read More, MARY DUCHIN was for 50 years a much-loved English teacher at Bayonne High School in Bayonne, NJ. 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. Lets listen. Brother of Edward (Freddye) Duchin Read More, 10 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Belleville. 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