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...BEGINNING, GOD" (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A concert of sacred music taped on Christmas Day at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church by Duke Ellington, his orchestra and four choirs...
Thus spake Duke Ellington, 66, in the lyrics for his swinging Genesis, In the Beginning God. Putting on the "personal statement" in his Concert of Sacred Music with the full band in Manhattan's 157-year-old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Duke made a joyful noise indeed. So did torchy Lena Horne, who sang an exquisite Christmas Surprise, the Ellington song about the birth of Christ. In doing hip hymns for the concert, which CBS will televise Jan. 16, the Duke explained, "You have to believe very strongly yourself or else it doesn't work. The pulpit...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Duke Ellington Swings Through Japan" shows the Duke on his memorable three-week tour of Japan in 1964. Repeat...
...charts, past such rock 'n' run regulars as the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. The title song has the usu al rocking beat, but Pianist Lewis also dispenses old-fashioned swing, bland harmonies and light-fingered embellishments in such well-worth-repeating pieces as Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and Buddy Johnson's Since I fell...
...moved through a noisy, fetid hall where one group of Negroes sat on the floor eating cold pork and beans and raw carrots. He was greeted with cries of "Water! Water! Give us drinking water!" Outside, Johnson, plainly moved by their plight, told Office of Emergency Planning Director Buford Ellington: "You've got to give them some water in there." L.B.J. then asked Mayor Schiro to get every Coca-Cola, Seven-Up and Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in town to rush soft drinks to the school-and advised the mayor to make personally sure that the bottles were handed...