TGIF, May 23, 5:30
Our Friday concert this week features the accomplished and lively artists Greg Dufford, clarinet, and Peggy Lyon Bull, piano, performing music by Delmas, Scarlatti, Rachmaninov, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Sanctuary doors open at 5:15 pm and the concert begins at 5:30. The concert is free with donations accepted.
Program
Fantasie Italienne by Marc Delmas (1885-1931)
Four Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
- Sonata, d minor
- Sonata, c minor
- Sonata, d minor
- Sonata, B-flat Major
Gregory Dufford, clarinet
Peggy Lyon, piano
Two Preludes by Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Prelude, g-sharp minor, Op. 32 No. 12
Prelude, D Major, Op. 23 No. 4
Peggy Lyon, piano
Concerto No. 2, for violin and orchestra, Il Profeti
by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
transcribed by Gregory Dufford
- “Jeremiah”, espressivo e dolente
Two pieces by Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000)
Tonada
Cueca
Gregory Dufford, clarinet
Peggy Lyon, piano
The Artists
Greg Dufford
As clarinetist/bass clarinetist for the San Francisco Opera Orchestra from 1980 to 1998, Gregory Dufford performed with many of the world’s finest opera singers. His performing experience went well beyond the opera stage to include 13 years as Principal Clarinetist of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. During that period, the group produced seven CDs on various labels and premiered works by Elliott Carter, John Cage, John Harbison and others.
Gregory also performed with and was a founding member of several other chamber music ensembles in the San Francisco area, such as the Anchor Chamber Players, the Stanford Woodwind Quintet, and the Beaumont Ensemble. He also held teaching positions at Stanford and San Francisco State Universities.
After moving to Evergreen, Colorado, in 1998, he taught full-time at Metropolitan State College and coached chamber music for the Evergreen Chamber Orchestra and at various schools.
Peggy Lyon Bull
Peggy Lyon Bull is a concert pianist whose playing has been described as “radiating beauty and an inner intensity of feeling which is simply overwhelming.” She has performed solo recitals in Austria, Peru, and major cities in the western United States, and has given world premieres of works by David Baker, Eugene Kurz and Istvan Hornyak. She has also performed concertos with orchestras in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, in Pullman, Washington, and in Denver, Evergreen and Golden Colorado. She has recorded ten solo CD’s.
Peggy’s award-winning specialty is giving concerts with commentary about the music and the composers. Her talks are informative and humorous, and they are unique for including outrageous pronouncements of critics.
Peggy studied piano and voice at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has a Masters in piano performance from Washington State University and a Masters in voice performance from the University of Denver.
She has just released a book, Composers Talk of Many Things, a lighthearted entertainment about the ordinary and extraordinary details of composers’ and critics’ lives. The book is available from Amazon.
Gregory Dufford and Peggy Lyon Bull have been performing together for more than nineteen years and they have also recorded five CD’s together.
(Published in 2025)