Face the music : a memoir / Peter Duchin with Patricia Beard.

"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, ki...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Duchin, Peter (Author)
Beard, Patricia (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Duchin, Peter.
Band directors > United States > Biography.
Pianists > United States > Biography.
Band directors.
Pianists.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xx, 281 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book
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.