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14 de may. de 2022 · 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. He used his time in recovery to encourage fellow patients undergoing physical therapy to make themselves happy no matter what. Duchin’s riveting new book.
18 de dic. de 2018 · “The story of [Peter] Duchin’s life has an elegiac aura of glamour and tragedy that might have come directly from the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “This book brings back marvelous memories of a very special time.”—Frank Sinatra Called “a living compendium of a hundred years of social history” by The New York Times Book Review, Peter Duchin ...
7 de dic. de 2021 · Peter Duchin, Patricia Beard. 3.80. 40 ratings14 reviews. In this poignant memoir, the internationally celebrated bandleader reflects on family, illness, grief, and a bygone era of glamour, contemplating not just his career but the history of midcentury music and nightlife—and the enormously important role that the bandstand played in his life.
In the succeeding decades, Duchin would follow his father as a bandleader, becoming the epitome of mid-20th Century glamour. But it. had, but as the people he never got to know. More than a memoir, Face the Music offers a window into the era of debutantes and white-tie balls, when such events made national headlines.
15 de jun. de 1996 · 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 ...
Peter Duchin has been America's top society bandleader for over thirty years. He has played at the White House, at a bar mitzvah on the QE II, at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, and at thousands of other private and public events. He has observed shifts in social customs from close up, and his account of them is fascinating. But his memoirs are not simply a riveting look at society and ...
7 de dic. de 2021 · Face the Music is a memoir by the maestro who accompanied Sinatra, played Capote’s Black and White Ball, and entertained presidents. An outsider with a gift for inclusion, Duchin is equally at ease chatting with royalty or taking a meal in the hotel kitchen with the staff. Wherever he played, Duchin owned the joint.
