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Top US artist here for aids concert

Island in six months to raise money for AIDS education.Miss Lytle will be accompanied by her brother Mr. Cecil Lytle on piano at Wesley Methodist church tomorrow evening.

Island in six months to raise money for AIDS education.

Miss Lytle will be accompanied by her brother Mr. Cecil Lytle on piano at Wesley Methodist church tomorrow evening.

The presentation is in support of the AIDS Education Foundation organised by Sandys Rotary club.

Miss Lytle appeared at a Rotary Club concert in the Islands in December as part of World AIDS Day.

Both hail from New York where they received early training from their father, a church organist.

Miss Lytle started performing in a singing group at the age of nine. She has given concerts at Boston's Gardner Museum and the University of California and has been the soloist with the Rudolph Saltzer Singers, Stanford University Opera Theatre and the Oakland and Long Beach symphony orchestras.

Tomorrow, the couple will play songs by Leonard Bernstein, Margaret Bonds and Aaron Copland, plus traditional spirituals.

The couple recently appeared on a TV special The Naked Gershwin, and they will take selections from that show and music from Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue.

The Lytles rehearsed in Southampton Methodist Church this week, and the Rev.

David Chisling said: "They are both phenomenal artists in their own right.

They are here free of charge to help us raise money for AIDS education.'' AIDS BENEFIT -- Gwendolyn and Cecil Lytle.