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Face the music : a memoir
- Title
- Face the music : a memoir / Peter Duchin with Patricia Beard.
- Author
- Duchin, Peter
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, [2021]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Beard, Patricia
- Description
- xx, 281 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "The celebrated musician reflects on family, illness, and a bygone era of glamour in this poignant memoir. Peter Duchin is among the great American bandleaders. His six decades of performing have taken him to the world's most exclusive dance floors and concert halls. He has played for presidents, kings, and queens, as well as for civil rights and cultural organizations. But in 2013, Duchin suffered a stroke that left him with limited use of his left hand, severely impacting his career. Days of recuperating from his stroke--and later from a critical case of COVID-19--inspired Duchin to consider his complicated past. 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 the succeeding decades, Duchin would follow his father as a bandleader, becoming the epitome of mid-20th century glamour. But it was only half a century later, in the aftermath of his sudden illnesses, that he began to see his mother and father not just as the parents he never had, but as the individuals he never got to know. More than a memoir, Face the Music offers a window into a bygone era of debutantes and white-tie balls, when such events made national headlines. Duchin explores what "glamour" and "society" once meant, and what they mean now. With sincerity and humor, Face the Music offers a moving portrait of an extraordinary life, its disruptions, and a revitalization"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-266) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part one: Stricken. A stroke of bad luck -- Fugues, dreams, and hallucinations -- Alone -- Zero out of ten -- The happy chemical -- Part two: Absent presences. Fragments -- The mystery of Marjorie -- Eddy, here and then gone -- Intermezzo -- Part three: Reflections in a rearview mirror. Becoming Peter Duchin -- Nightclubs, the last dance -- Glamour -- A society bandleader -- "The Debs' delight" -- Truman Capote's "Party of the century" -- The discotheque revolution -- Social action -- From society to celebrity -- Peter Duchin is back -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JMD 22-74
- ISBN
- 9780385545877
- 0385545878
- 9781984899774
- 1984899775
- LCCN
- 2021014447
- OCLC
- 1241164648
- Author
- Duchin, Peter, author.
- Title
- Face the music : a memoir / Peter Duchin with Patricia Beard.
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, [2021]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-266) and index.
- Added Author
- Beard, Patricia, author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Duchin, Peter, Face the music New York : Doubleday, 2021. 9780385545884 (DLC) 2021014448
- Research Call Number
- JMD 22-74