Show Ellington's Concert Set For June 25 There is no name on the list of the wands wand's greatest in music today today tor to to- r day J that t t has as not paid tribute to the genius of DUKE ELLINGTON EU who appears at the Grand Junction Junction Junc Junc- tion lion High school auditorium on Mond Monday y June 25 at p p. p m. m It has been said by critics that Duke Ellington's music and Walt Disney's cartoons are the only two original art rt forms torms America has produced True or not Ellington Elling Elling- ton has been acclaimed throughout the world as the creator of ot a new rich and distinctly American musical musical mu mu- steal idiom Being Americas America's foremost com corn poser of modern music Ellington has hu reigned as a setting pace stylIst stylist stylist since 1927 1921 For more than two decades th the Ellington Idiom has carved out a big niche in musical America Bands have come and gone None have moved Ellington from the top rung Yet Duke feels he hasn't even scratched the surface surface surface sur sur- face of music's great potentialities His lIis songs are as fresh today as the day they were written Duke Ellington the one compo composer ser whose works always remain as standards standards standards stand ards has always written In a style so much ahead of ot his time that the listening public Is forever just catching up with the songs he wrote years ago Solitude Sophisticated Lady Mood In Indigo Indigo Indigo In- In digo are still fresh on the lips of the public and right down in front with his more recent Dont get around Much Anymore and Im Beginning to See the Light Since his first concert in January January January Jan Jan- uary 1943 at New Yorks York's Carnegie Hall lIall Ellington has played concerts In Cleveland Boston Philadelphia Los Angeles Chicago and other key cities always cities always to capacity houses Dukes Duke's current itinerary calls for eighty concerts a year In the opinion of many Dukes Duke's concert activities have won him himan an audience of the widest scope and established the crown of ot leadership lead on his head more firmly than at any time in his career |