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An interview with John Gregory Dunne
with Clive Lythgoe on Mar 4, 1997
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with Clive Lythgoe on Mar 4, 1997
Clive Lythgoe’s is a concert pianist. His first Gershwin recording won the British ‘Record Of The Year Award’, an award he shared with Sir Georg Solti and The Beatles. And, his acclaimed recordings of American piano music in the permanent collection of the White House Library.
Lythgoe has appeared as soloist with all the leading British orchestras under the batons of such illustrious conductors as Sir Colin Davis. Sir John Barbirolli, and Zubin Mehta. In England, his TV series, ‘The Lythgoe Touch’, ran for a record breaking 85 weeks, consecutively followed by a 52 week BBC radio series and a 26 week television series for London’s ITN. In the USA, he hosted a TV series, called ‘A Touch Of Lythgoe’ for PBS.
Lythgoe is Director of Horizon Concerts in New York, a non profit organization that takes over 100 Free classical concerts annually, to needy audiences that include the elderly in nursing homes, Alzheimer, AIDS, Drug Rehabilitation and Homeless Centers, as well as selected Public Schools that have no music of any kind, throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
Source - NGRArtists.com http://www.ngrartists.com/artists/lythgoe_c.htm
