I hang out with people I dig, people who are interesting. 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. Private family services were held. Imagine, if you were walking down the street, and you suddenly passed your mother and you didnt recognize her, and she didnt recognize you? Read More, Arrangements under the direction of Olinger Hampden Mortuary & Cemetery, Denver, CO. Read More, Col. RONALD A. DUCHIN, USA (Ret.) She had a shop in New York and also posed for Lucky Strike.. Beloved wife of the late Samuel Lev and the late Martin Gates. Burial: Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Iselin. It is even more difficult to define, and, unlike pornography, the real thing is rare. He was previously married to Brooke Hayward and Cheray Georgea Zauderer. Born May 23, 1945, in Newark, New Jersey, son of Harry and Bess (ne Goldberg) Duchin. I think that was his life. I never have, and I agree that glamour, whatever that once meant, has pretty much disappeared. In 1947, Eddy Duchin remarried and young Peter moved in with him for the first time. Marie Harriman (ne Norton, formerly Whitney; April 12, 1903 - September 26, 1970) was an American art collector and First Lady of New York from 1955 to 1958. It's just a phone book. She was born in New York City to the late Frances Stelman Weisbard and Oscar Pomeranz. Read More, Beloved husband of Cecelia Duchin. Carole was a resident of Orange, Connecticut. 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. "The only kids to play with were the kids of the help," Duchin recalls. In 1964, he married Cheray Zauderer, a divorced Manhattan socialite with whom he eventually had three children. And you have to really set up a crowd. Having entertained presidents, kings, and queens, and serving as Audrey Hepburns chosen date for the Paris Opera Ball, no one knows caf society better. And we can forgive them because they pass the good times on to us. Of course not. Duchin wrote Face the Music with Patricia Beard, a former features editor for Town & Country and Mirabella and author of 11 non-fiction books and one novel. His mother was Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island and New York City socialite who died unexpectedly when he was just five days old. Anyone can read what you share. 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. David Netto is a writer and interior designer. 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. Highly recommended. Like I said at the beginning, it was interesting, not great. The odd thing about Peter Duchins book is that he provides little, if any, information about his fathers family. "[4] An Edward Steichen photograph of Oelrichs was included in an advertisement for Pond's cold cream in a 1926 copy of Ladies' Home Journal. Peter Duchin was born on July 28, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. Right. The art historian Herbert Muschamp was interested in the same magic. He was predeceased in death by his mother Norma Read More, Duchin, Cole 1994 - 2017 Timothy Cole Duchin, age 23, of Grove City, passed away Sunday, September 10, 2017. He was also a board member for The Center for Arts Education. 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. 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. 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Hilarity was the dominant note. 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.". She told me that it was the happiest night of their lives.. 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 hes still a visible presence on the fall and holiday benefit circuits. Duchin's mother died in childbirth. So was my mother. 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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. Maybe the finest autobiography that have read. "They didn't want me to blame myself.". Over the years Mr. Duchin, as both pianist and bandleader, has provided the musical entertainment at an estimated 6,000 celebrations. Travel & Experiences. Duchins parents, Eddy Duchin and Marjorie Oelrichs, photographed by Cecil Beaton. 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. I play with my right hand and our bass player duplicates the sound the left hand would make. When we arrived, we found just one table set for two in the center of the room. 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. Her cheering section of friends and family were at her side along the course with her AngelsGrace colleagues. Geraldine, affectionately known as Gerry was born in Washington County,. Brother of Edward (Freddye) Duchin Read More, 10 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Belleville. 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. I found it interesting, especially since I did not grow up in the kind of environment that he did. 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. His immensely popular father had been one of the earliest pianists to lead an orchestra and was known particularly for his jazz music. Theres lots of searing reality here, but no fewer laughs. of Plattsburgh, NY, died July 9, 2007 after a long illness. There is a soundtrack to this book review. Family (1) Spouse Virginia Coleman (2012 - present) Peter Duchin. 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. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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. His father, the legendary bandleader Eddy Duchin, died when Peter was twelve; his mother, Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin, died when Peter was just six days old. A maternal aunt was suffragist Alison Turnbull Hopkins. FROM FACE THE MUSIC, BY PETER DUCHIN WITH PATRICIA BEARD, TO BE PUBLISHED DECEMBER 7 BY DOUBLEDAY. Mr. Duchin is that rare party entertainer so at home at a deluxe gala that he holds forth with guests while performing. Today, Peter Duchin is a society orchestra leader who entertains for those who summer in places like the Hamptons, Westport, Grosse Point, Jupiter Island or Newport, R.I. His autobiography, Ghost of a Chance is a breezily written story co-authored with Charles Michener. Duchin's riveting new book. Soundtrack: The Post. That is how I felt. Beloved wife of the late Samuel Lev and the late Martin Gates. Reading Time: 3 minutes. Cole always lived life full throttle. He has bookings that go into 1980, and . Born in Yonkers Read More, Duchin, Sally Pomeranz In loving memory of Sally Pomeranz Duchin, 88, of Tucson, AZ and Houston, TX, passed away on February 1, 2022. 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. It's just a phone book"), came from "the poor side" of the Oelrich family. But what you really have is the autobiography of a working musician who has interesting thoughts about his heroes, jazz and popular music and about running the orchestra business. It is as much the story of a young bandleaders education as the tale of an arrogant young man rubbing elbows with some of Americas most famous social and historical players, from World War II to the present. 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? 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