Vernon Duke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3992038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vernon Duke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vernon |
| FAMILY NAME | Duke |
| SIGNATURE | DUKE V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fish Pier, Santa Monica
Fish Pier, Santa Monica Vernon Duke (bio) and Boris Dralyuk (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Background photo by Sean McArthur / Unsplash.com Vernon Duke, Vernon Duke Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress Photo of Boris Dralyuk by Jennifer Croft Look—Santa Monica,so much like Italy.Old friend, remember whenyou and I lived down here?See all those fish shops?Here, come this way.A huge orange lobstersquats on display,beside…
Excerpts from Passport to Paris
Editor’s Note: Russian-born, naturalized American Vernon Duke (1903–1969) is best remembered for popular songs such as “April in Paris” (a sort of theme song and big instrumental hit for the Count Basie “Second Testament” band), “I Can’t Get Start ed,” and “Autumn in New York.” But he might not have been happy that his legacy turned out this way, for he was also a proli1⁄2c composer of “serious” or “classical” music. Half of who Duke was as a mus…
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Excerpts from Passport to Paris
Editor’s Note: Russian-born, naturalized American Vernon Duke (1903–1969) is best remembered for popular songs such as “April in Paris” (a sort of theme song and big instrumental hit for the Count Basie “Second Testament” band), “I Can’t Get Start ed,” and “Autumn in New York.” But he might not have been happy that his legacy turned out this way, for he was also a proli1⁄2c composer of “serious” or “classical” music. Half of who Duke was as a mus…
Fish Pier, Santa Monica
Fish Pier, Santa Monica Vernon Duke (bio) and Boris Dralyuk (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Background photo by Sean McArthur / Unsplash.com Vernon Duke, Vernon Duke Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress Photo of Boris Dralyuk by Jennifer Croft Look—Santa Monica,so much like Italy.Old friend, remember whenyou and I lived down here?See all those fish shops?Here, come this way.A huge orange lobstersquats on display,beside…
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