A maternal aunt was suffragist Alison Turnbull Hopkins. Peter Duchin, whose new memoir is out now, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in New York City in 1971. Ill play something with a 12/8 tempo, something like Etta Jamess At Last. From that low boil, he said, he might go straight into something up-tempo, like Oh What a Night, by Frankie Valli. Give me a party where people are having a ball. The young boy was raised primarily by his godparents, the illustrious W. Averell. She scandalized them by appearing in cigarette ads in the '20s. His mother was Marjorie Oelrichs, a Newport, Rhode Island and New York City socialite who died unexpectedly when he was just five days old. These days class lines are so blurred. 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. "My life has been a fairy tale," says Duchin, who recounts it in his lively and affecting memoir, "Ghost of a Chance," published last week by Random House ($27.50). The word glamour, which comes from Scots, means magic and enchantment, and for me, certain kinds of music have those qualities. "When I was younger, people had a much more carefree attitude at a party. [3], A well-known New York and Newport beauty, she was described by Vogue as having "waxen skin and eyebrows like butterflies. The child, the couple's third, has been named Colin Z. 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. 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.. Segue to Eddy Duchins signature tune, Chopins Nocturne in E-flat. December 11, 2021. After graduating with a music degree from Yale, Duchin, helped by his famous name and his social connections, formed a dance band that was an instant hit when it opened in 1962 at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel. Pretty soon we were all smiling because they had hope.. Im more jazz. Reading Time: 3 minutes. 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. See the article in its original context from. Passed away on Thurs., May 20, 2010. I know no art more atmospheric than the music of Peter Duchin The bandsspecialties are memory and moodthe production of feelings under controlled circumstances. 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. By submitting your e-mail, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. He practiced in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania and Lankenau Hospitals for 23 years. 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. As he recovered, Duchin studied the photos of his parentshere with his father, Eddyto try to get more insight into their brief lives. Profile: He is an American pianist and band leader, born July 28, 1937 in New York City, New York. By 2009, Duchin's band had played at an estimated 6,000 performances.[2]. [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. While at Yale, Duchin decided to take a junior year abroad to study French at the Sorbonne. 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. It's just a phone book"), came from "the poor side" of the Oelrich family. Theyre more Sinatra, Bobby Darin.. In essence, I was introduced to the world of the rich, the famous, the influential from Peter Duchin's perspective. Like I said at the beginning, it was interesting, not great. 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. 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. He had just spent 20 minutes rehearsing a number with Liz Smith, the gossip columnist and the events honorary chairwoman. I agree with Muschamp that music inspires memory and mood and, as he also wrote, evaporates into ambience. Im awfully glad he didnt use the word glamorous. Eddy Duchin on piano at the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro. It was in this period that I finally got to know them in a way. Born with a respiratory illness, Duchin was given only two weeks to live. So many names dropped I skipped through whole paragraphs. 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 . Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapel, Deerfield Beach. Ron Galella // Getty Images From the time I began at the Maisonette, newspapers and magazines. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. I don't think it was .name-dropping. That was a stroke of good fortune. 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. 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. Duchin is an honorary member and former Vice-Chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts. Porters lyrics were never better than when he was talking about the international glamour set. In the 1996 memoir Ghost of a Chance, his son Peter wrote of the factual discrepancies in the film The Eddy Duchin Story . "C.D OELRICHS WEDS MADELINE MILLIUS; New York Stock Broker, 44, Marries Daughter of Late Paris Perfumer, 23. Travel & Experiences. Right. Hart Preston/Time Life Pictures, via Getty Images. Obituaries. By now, Peter Duchin's career has lasted longer than his father's. Eddy Duchin died of leukemia in 1951 at age 42. And what can he tell us of glamour, something Duchin has forgotten more about than you or I will ever know? 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. Visitation will be held 12-4 and 5-9 PM Monday with a 10 AM Funeral Service on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at the David C. Brown Funeral Home, Belleville. 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. I never have, and I agree that glamour, whatever that once meant, has pretty much disappeared. Maybe the finest autobiography that have read. ", Duchin revisited the scenes of his youth, talked to old friends and visited his mother's grave for the first time. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Duchin's riveting new book. I hang out with people I dig, people who are interesting. Indeed, Duchin grew up feeling entitled to these luxuries. [6][7] Marjorie was removed from the New York Social Register for marrying Duchin because Eddy was Jewish; her reaction was reportedly "Who cares? Perhaps its because he finds hes often being asked about himself that he prefers to steer the conversation away from himself and to hear other peoples stories about themselves.. Dear sister of the late Nettie Miller and Harold Miller. 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. FROM FACE THE MUSIC, BY PETER DUCHIN WITH PATRICIA BEARD, TO BE PUBLISHED DECEMBER 7 BY DOUBLEDAY. Early on in his career, Duchin appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the longest-running and most popular variety show ever. 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. 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. 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. Loving sister of several brothers and sisters. 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After her parents divorce, her father remarried to Madeleine Lucienne Meyer, a daughter of Millius Pierre Meyer, in 1926. I asked a friend who had a career as an editor of fashion magazines what she thought about glamour. 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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. I don't give a s-- about who they are. Brother of Edward (Freddye) Duchin Read More, 10 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Belleville. Being a fan of big bands and of jazz, I really wanted to read Peter Duchin's biography. From the description of Brooke Hayward papers, 1911-1977. It makes everybody look like theyre a good dancer. 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. Who else besides Peter Duchin shot ducks with Averell Harriman and jammed with Lester Young? She was born August 18, 1924 in Waco, TX to Sol and Stella Ashendorf. Born May 23, 1945, in Newark, New Jersey, son of Harry and Bess (ne Goldberg) Duchin. When she died a few days after giving birth to Peter, his father was apparently so pained, and certain that his frail newborn son was also dying, that he decided to go on an extensive tour with his orchestra. Duchin explores what "glamour" and "society" once meant, and what they mean now. He served in the Navy in WWII and graduated from Emerson College, Boston in 1951. Mr. Duchins father, Eddy Duchin, was also a bandleader and was famous for a string of Top 10 records in the 1930s. Gloria Duchin passed away peacefully, Sunday morning July 31, at her home in Vero Beach, Florida surrounded by her loving family. Mr. Duchin is such a fixture in these circles theres an understanding that in any given ballroom he belongs more to the elite than do most guests, or even hosts. 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. 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. [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. This is one of the most compulsively readable memoirs I have ever read. 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. Everyone from Frank Sinatra and Ernest Hemingway to Jackie and Ari Onassis makes an appearance in the course of Duchins star-studded story. They get up, they stay up.. Its only a telephone book.. [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]. 45.3K subscribers Peter Duchin, the premier society bandleader, and pianist of our time, led a charmed life, dated Audrey Hepburn and Kim Novak, accompanied Sinatra, and did the White House.. Terms & Privacy His later career was in the insurance industry Read More, Funeral Service 10 a.m. at David C. Brown Funeral Home, Belleville. As it continued, it became nothing but a who's who of the rich and famous. They got loose. 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. In 1947, Eddy Duchin remarried and young Peter moved in with him for the first time. Here are 10 you cant miss. The celebrated society bandleader has been equally at home in the privileged worlds of money and power and of jazz musicians, bohemians and barmen. 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). Her cheering section of friends and family were at her side along the course with her AngelsGrace colleagues. He has been married to Virginia Coleman since 2012. Harvey was born in Newark, N.J., on July 12, 1938, son of Harry and Bessie (Goldberg) Duchin. Arrangements: Orland's Ewing Memorial Chapel, Ewing Twp. TRAGIC BIRTH It's an irresistible story. 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. 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. Born November 24, 1923 to the late John & Jenny (Marina). Its chock-full of name-dropping--but its more than a simple-minded celebrity bio. With sincerity and humor, Face the Music offers a moving portrait of an extraordinary life, its disruptions, and revitalization. Then, fresh out of the military, Duchin returned to New York, where he exhausted every social invitation tossed his way. David Netto is a writer and interior designer. 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. 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. 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. Everyone remembers the parties where they danced all night, Mr. Duchin said. Peter Duchin, pianist and society bandleader, without one of his 15 tuxedos, rehearsing for a Port Jefferson, N.Y., concert. Of course not. Read More, Duchin , Betty L. Belleville, MI Age 84, died Sunday at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor. But when he goes . Duchin's mother died in childbirth. "It's an amazing story," says Duchin over lunch at the Huntington Hotel. And we can forgive them because they pass the good times on to us. 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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. Peter ended up being raised amid extraordinary wealth and privilege by his godparents, W. Averell and Marie Harriman. I actually couldn't relate to much of it. Loving wife of the late Raymond A. Duchin. He imbued the room with joy and shared fond memories with the elegant crowd, revealing that his most memorable party wasnt Capotes or even a night at the White Houseit happened right here in Chicago: I was asked to bring my 10-piece orchestra to the Palmer House by the hostess who shared no other details, Duchin recalled. Science. He was a little 19th century, a little aloof, and not the type you want arriving at a time like that. 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. 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. About music, about style, about survival with a smile. He has played for presidents, kings, and queens, as well as for civil rights and cultural organizations. Born in New York City, Mrs. Duchin was a former resident of Liberty, NY, Sarasota, FL, and Monroe Township. 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. For Duchin's a man who goes to parties. Peter Duchin was born in New York City in 1937, the only child of his handsome father, Eddy, and his . Peter Oelrichs Duchin (born July 28, 1937) is an American pianist and band leader . Mrs. Duchin died two years later following the birth . Over the years Mr. Duchin, as both pianist and bandleader, has provided the musical entertainment at an estimated 6,000 celebrations. 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. Paul Duchin Obituary. He Read More, DUCHIN HARVEY ERIC, M.D. 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. Surrounded by her loving family out now, and I agree with Muschamp that inspires! 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