Passport to Paris and Los Angeles Poems
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Availability:In StockContributor:Vernon Duke, Boris Dralyuk (Translator)Publish date:7/15/2025Pages:534
Language:EnglishPublisher:Paul Dry BooksISBN-13:9781589882041ISBN-10:1589882040UPC:9781589882041Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Entertainment & Performing Arts, MemoirsSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC3PDWQRWV
Passport to Paris and Los Angeles Poems
"Passport to Paris is one of the great neglected memoirs of the 20th-century arts. The cosmopolitan composer Vernon Duke, born Vladimir Dukelsky, succeeded not only in living a mesmerizing life but also in telling his story with incomparable novelistic flair. A sampling of Duke's California poetry augments the allure of an essential republication."
--Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Paul Dry BooksISBN-13:9781589882041ISBN-10:1589882040UPC:9781589882041Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Entertainment & Performing Arts, MemoirsSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SC3PDWQRWV
Vernon Duke (1903-1969), accomplished composer of modern
classical music and important contributor to the Great American Songbook
("April in Paris," "Autumn in New York," "I Can't Get Started," etc.), was born
in the former Russian Empire as Vladimir Dukelsky and fled war-torn Ukraine
with his family in 1919. In Passport to Paris, he chronicles, with
characteristic wit and verve, his childhood, his...
classical music and important contributor to the Great American Songbook
("April in Paris," "Autumn in New York," "I Can't Get Started," etc.), was born
in the former Russian Empire as Vladimir Dukelsky and fled war-torn Ukraine
with his family in 1919. In Passport to Paris, he chronicles, with
characteristic wit and verve, his childhood, his...
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