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From 1985 to 1989, Duchin had a professional partnership with Jimmy Maxwell, leader of the traditional society jazz band in New Orleans. He lived on a houseboat on the Seine and was having a marvelous time.One day as I was in a state of undress with a young woman when I heard the banging on the boats hatch. The Harrimans became his family. Duchin the elder, the son of Jewish immigrant parents, was a musical genius who began leading his own orchestra in 1931 when he was only 22. [2] Her paternal aunt was poet and playwright Michael Strange. In 2008 Hayward and Duchin announced their separation, and they eventually divorced. Peter Duchin. 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). Cherished grandmother of Michael and Logan. He was considered a throwback even when he first began playing professionally in the 1960s. Dear father of Paul Duchin, Neal (Chaya) Duchin, Steven (Paula) Duchin and the late Burt Alan Duchin. 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. Then, fresh out of the military, Duchin returned to New York, where he exhausted every social invitation tossed his way. By submitting your e-mail, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. [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. That is how I felt. As he grows up, Peter becomes well acquainted with the rich and famous in America and Europe and eventually achieves musical success on his own. Dear mother of Sue Ellen (Steven) Bergner. While in the Navy, Eddy Duchin visited Peter and Marie Harriman, who helped raise Peter. He had no money of his own. Early life [ edit ] Marjorie was born on June 23, 1908 and was daughter of Marjorie Ramely Oelrichs (ne Turnbull; 1883-1952) and Charles de Loosey Oelrichs (1882-1973). Still, he does wear one almost every night. 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. As a child, Duchin's nurse and governess kept scrapbooks about his family but cut out all references to how his mother had died. She asked me why I could possibly be interested. concerts, tea dances and debutante parties. Is There a Link Between Atlantis and Sphinx? When his celebrated parents died young, Peter was raised by New York Gov. A nice, fluffy memoir with a straight-forward writing style. Variations: Viewing All | Peter Duchin. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Being a fan of big bands and of jazz, I really wanted to read Peter Duchin's biography. He called Mr. Duchin an immensely talented musician, as evidenced by the records he made for Decca in the 60s, which even included songs Mr. Duchin had written himself. 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. I had to go to work to eat.". Cole was a 2012 graduate of the Southwest Career Academy. Paul Duchin, 76 of Livingston, NJ passed away on January 28th after a short illness. People ate it up when Mr. Duchin paused between numbers to tell stories from his past. 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. December 11, 2021. Ronald was a resident of Mc Lean, Virginia. World & Nation. During WWII she worked as a clerk for the U.S. Army Air Force in Waco Read More, Freddye Mae Duchin age 87 of San Antonio passed away Thursday, May 31, 2012. ), 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. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. 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. Also survived by other relatives and friends. 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. Not a great book but an enjoyable and interesting read. I always visualized her and always missed her, he shared. As it continued, it became nothing but a who's who of the rich and famous. Politics. At 59 he's no longer that dashing youth who had an affair in Spain with Ava Gardner, but he's still boyishly handsome. Imagine, if you were walking down the street, and you suddenly passed your mother and you didnt recognize her, and she didnt recognize you? He mentions Duchin relatives but provides no real picture of what his relationship with them was like or how they felt about his being raised by friends of his mother. At weddings in particular, you need to be able to do the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, the Beach Boys, or else wed only be hired by 90-year-olds, he said. Beloved wife of the late Philip. The child, the couple's third, has been. Sports. Over the years Mr. Duchin, as both pianist and bandleader, has provided the musical entertainment at an estimated 6,000 celebrations. Each of them knows about 3,000 songs. Duchin was educated at Eaglebrook School (where he studied piano with Carrie Barbour Swift) and The Hotchkiss School prep schools in New England. Anyone can read what you share. 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. It is even more difficult to define, and, unlike pornography, the real thing is rare. Cherished father of Sandra (John) Moe, Michael, and Deborah (Mark) Wilutis. She was putting on makeup and was a little surprised when I came up from behind and gave her a hug and said, Hi, mom. I had never met her before., He continued, My father was in the Navy in World War II, fighting on several battlefields in the Pacific. Science. 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. In the final section, Duchin reveals how his career and public celebrity were made possible by his brilliant social connections. It was probably a way of trying to establish that I had roots in the first place, he said. 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. She Read More, MARY DUCHIN was for 50 years a much-loved English teacher at Bayonne High School in Bayonne, NJ. The art historian Herbert Muschamp was interested in the same magic. Click or call (800) 729-8809, Church & Chapel Funeral Home - Waukesha / Pewaukee, Bernheim Apter Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, Orland's Ewing Memorial Chapel - Ewing Township, DAVID C. BROWN FUNERAL HOME - Belleville, Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia Daily News. Whether headlining Truman Capotes Black and White Ball or sharing the stage with the Supremes for a deb party at a Lake Forest country club, in the six decades that he has played the most exclusive dance floors in the world Peter Duchin has always lived up to his theme song, Make Someone Happy., Bandleader and epitome of elegance, Duchin did it again last Friday, an evening that began with a call from one of his favorite friends, Abra Prentice Wilkin (who regretted not being there but wished him good luck). Like I said at the beginning, it was interesting, not great. 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. His later career was in the insurance industry Read More, Funeral Service 10 a.m. at David C. Brown Funeral Home, Belleville. 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. Everyone remembers the parties where they danced all night, Mr. Duchin said. 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. I don't give a s-- about who they are. Mr. Duchins father, Eddy Duchin, was also a bandleader and was famous for a string of Top 10 records in the 1930s. 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. [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. Now, they talk business, they network. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 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Mrs. Duchin died two years later following the birth . It was a capacity crowd of a few hundred, and perhaps two dozen couples got out of their chairs to dance the fox trot or a slow Lindy. 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.. ", 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. 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. Soundtrack: The Post. "I was supposed to die. I graduated GeorgetownNursing and I know where the Harriman house was. didn't finish. Commander Frank Turnbull, a retired naval officer, and his wife, the former Marion Louise Bates, descendant of William Bradford, a governor of Plymouth Colony in the 17th century. My dream was always that he hadnt died and when I was playing in the Maisonette Room at the St. Regis, he would be playing at the Waldorf.. Read More, Duchin, Alex Romulus, MI Mr. Duchin, 81, passed Friday, September 9, 2005 at his home. You rarely hear Peter refer to himself, unless you ask, and hes loyal to the bone to those he loves. 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. Dear grandfather of 10 and great-grandfather Read More, Submit an obit for publication in any local newspaper and on Legacy. He Read More, DUCHIN HARVEY ERIC, M.D. 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. Beloved wife of Michael. Mr. Duchin is that rare party entertainer so at home at a deluxe gala that he holds forth with guests while performing. No one is glamorous anymore, she said. Peter Duchin was born on 28 July 1937 in New York City, New York, USA. Early life and education [ edit] Duchin was born in New York City, the son of pianist and band leader Eddy Duchin. 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. He had just played Lyndon Johnson's inauguration,. Read More, Naomi A. Duchin EWING - Naomi A. Duchin, 91, passed away Saturday, May 4, 2013. Gloria Duchin passed away peacefully, Sunday morning July 31, at her home in Vero Beach, Florida surrounded by her loving family. It was begun as a meditation on his need to know more about the mother he lost almost at birth (Would we recognize each other if we passed on the street? The list itself could function as a potted history of late-era American society, as it includes everything from Truman Capotes Black and White Ball in 1966 to a joint bar and bat mitzvah reception for Ivan Boeskys children on the Queen Elizabeth 2 to the wedding of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. Her cheering section of friends and family were at her side along the course with her AngelsGrace colleagues. His single "Star Dust" reached No. 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. 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? Had difficulties with all the name dropping, arrogance,etc. Contributions Tower One Foundation, Inc., 18 Tower Lane, New Haven, Ct. 06519. Duchin was born in New York City, the son of pianist and band leader Eddy Duchin. "[1] After the death of both of his parents he was raised by close family friends, statesman W. Averell Harriman and his wife, Marie Norton Harriman. He is an actor, known for The Post (2017), Working Girl (1988) and Jade (1995). 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. In later life he suffered the unwelcome neglect of his famous stepmother, Pamela . Peter Oelrichs Duchin (born July 28, 1937) is an American pianist and band leader . Read More, Duchin, Mary Kathryn (Nee Kaiser) Mary began training for Heaven's Marathon, Saturday, April 13th, at the age of 79. Her maternal grandparents were Lt. 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. Survivors include Read More, Duchin, George Born March 26, 1924 in Boston, died in Los Angeles in hospital March 1, 2006. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Im more jazz. "That's one of the reasons I have absolutely no class consciousness. 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. She was a society girl, growing up at Rose Cliff in Newport, but she wanted to work. She had a shop in New York and also posed for Lucky Strike.. Finally, Marie Harriman took him aside and told him to get his ass in gear.. I hang out with people I dig, people who are interesting. It was in this period that I finally got to know them in a way. 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. He was a little 19th century, a little aloof, and not the type you want arriving at a time like that. He has played at over 5000 events around the world, from civil rights organizations to grand galas, his dazzling smile enticing thousands over the years to the dance floor. Funeral services: 1 p.m. Thursday, Congregation Beth Chaim, 329 Village Road, Princeton Junction. He could have been inspired by something that happened when he was in Eddy Duchins living room.. Devoted grandmother of Scott, Eric, Deb (Dan), Patty (Bart), Michelle (Steve), Matt, and Andy. I just see fewer parties where people want a traditional dance band, he said over lunch at the Century Association, his Midtown club. [10] After Eddy's death in 1951, Peter was raised by close family friends, statesman W. Averell Harriman and his wife, Marie Norton Harriman.[8]. The child, the couple's third, has been named Colin Z. I don't think it was .name-dropping. 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. I found it interesting, especially since I did not grow up in the kind of environment that he did. Having entertained presidents, kings, and queens, and serving as Audrey Hepburns chosen date for the Paris Opera Ball, no one knows caf society better. She was the second wife of former New York Governor and diplomat Averell Harriman.Harriman operated a prominent New York City art gallery for more than a decade. The Eddy Duchin Story, starring Tyrone Power, was the heartbreak film of 1956 chronicling the Duchins great love affair and then early deaths. He was previously married to Brooke Hayward and Cheray Georgea Zauderer. "The only kids to play with were the kids of the help," Duchin recalls. 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. Face the Music, out this month and co-written with Patricia Beard, is Duchins moving and deeply personal follow-up. She was born August 18, 1924 in Waco, TX to Sol and Stella Ashendorf. Duchin used to be offended by the "society" label. 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. He had just spent 20 minutes rehearsing a number with Liz Smith, the gossip columnist and the events honorary chairwoman. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. I play with my right hand and our bass player duplicates the sound the left hand would make. Maybe the finest autobiography that have read. Beloved wife of the late Samuel Lev and the late Martin Gates. He had my return ticket to New York in hand. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs Duchin (June 23, 1908 - August 3, 1937) was an American socialite. I felt that pressure, but I needed it. And you have to really set up a crowd. Highly recommended. Passed away on Thurs., May 20, 2010. Cole always lived life full throttle. His immensely popular father had been one of the earliest pianists to lead an orchestra and was known particularly for his jazz music. When I had to wear designer suits for magazine shoots, I felt uncomfortable. He moved to California in the 50's and worked as an actor. 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. Duchin's mother died in childbirth. When I moved to Asia, he came over to visit me, and he was the first to greet me back home. Movie buffs and older baby boomers will recognize Eddy Duchin as the popular pianist and orchestra leader of the 1930s and 40s who was portrayed by Tyrone Power in a maudlin tear-jerker, The Eddy Duchin Story. Peter was the young son Tyrone Power so awkwardly tried to warm up to. After his divorce from Zauderer, in 1985 Duchin married Brooke Hayward, with whom he had been living since 1981. 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 dont care. [3] He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean . In 1937, however, Marjorie died a week after having given birth to Peter. 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. 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