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Jazz musician and composer Duke Ellington, right, and President Harry S. Truman compare musical notes at the White House. Mr. Ellington gave the president the original score of parts of the "Harlem Suite," a part of "Portrait of New York Suite," which he wrote under commission from Arturo Toscanini.