The Tradition Continues! We Have Music For You.
DATE/TIME: Sunday November
27, 2011 2:00-3:30 PM
ARTISTS: Peggy Lyon, Piano and Gregory Dufford, Clarinet
PROGRAM: Classical: Chopin, Bernstein, Bennett, Debussy
PLACE: Stanley Hotel Music Room
CONCERT SPONSORS: John & Connie Phipps
A perfect end to the Thanksgiving Holiday! Attend a concert on November 27 with
award winning Peggy Lyon on piano and clarinetist Gregory Dufford. The diverse
program begins with Richard Rodney Bennett's "Summer Music," the perfect piece
to remind us that the beauty of summer will be with us in only six months. This
piece has beautiful, soaring melodies and ends in utter playfulness. Following
the Bennett, Peggy will play her favorite Chopin Nocturne, in D flat major, a
masterwork of melody, harmony and luscious sounds. Lyon and Dufford will close
the first half with Leonard Bernstein's Sonata for clarinet and piano, a
masterwork of writing for both clarinet and piano.
In the second half, the duo will start with Eugene Bozza's "Bucolique," an
impressionistic work that shows off Gregory’s incredible clarinet technique. .
The spectacular program concludes with Carl Maria von Weber's tour de force for
clarinet and piano, the "Grand Duo concertant." This piece is powerful in every
way, with lightning fast first and last movements enclosing a dramatic,
heartfelt slow movement.
Gregory 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 CD's 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.
Since moving to Evergreen, Colorado, he dedicates his time to woodwind
instruction and chamber music coaching, and he is a full-time instructor at
Metropolitan State College in Denver.
Peggy Lyon 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.
Most recently Lyon performed the Strauss Burlesque with the Jefferson Symphony
Orchestra in October of 2011. She has recorded ten solo CD's.
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. 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.
Gregory Dufford and Peggy Lyon have been performing together for more than eight
years and they have also recorded five CD's together.
Plan your Sunday afternoons during December for the best in holiday music!
December 4 features the fabulous Jubilate Sacred Singers sharing their gift of
choral music with the Music Festival. A rare and entertaining men’s A cappella
group, The New Wizard Oil Combination vocal jazz singers have prepared a special
program of familiar upbeat holiday songs on December 11, and acclaimed Celtic
duo Margot Krimmel and Beth Leachman-Gadbaw will perform their annual holiday
concert Songs of Joy and Peace on December 18. It promises to be a special
festive season. There will be no concerts on Christmas or New Years.
Thank you to the Stanley Hotel, our weekly sponsors and Winter Season Major
Benefactors: Ron and Sylvia Kuhns, Daniel and Stephanie Rauk and Ron and Vivian
Gordon.
For further information, please contact our business office at 970-586-9519. To receive weekly
updates of our concerts and upcoming events, please send an email to
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