McCracken Middle School Band Programs
2004 - 2005
Chip De Stefano, Conductor
ALL BANDS CONCERT
Niles North High School
May 23, 2005
- Beginner Band
- Jim Along Josie - Traditional
- Skip it Lou - Traditional
- You're a Grand Old Flag - George M. Cohan, arranged by Michael
Story
- A Touch of Baroque - Sandy Feldstein and John O'Reilly
- 5th Grade Band
- Old Man River - Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern, arranged
by Eric Osterling
- Legend of the Yankee Clippers - James Swearingen
- Concert Band
- Command March - John Edmondson
- 25 or 6 to 4 - Robert Lamm, arranged by John Edmondson
- Russian Sailor's Dance - Reinhold Glier, arranged by Andrew
Balent
- Symphonic Band
- The American Dream - James A. Beckel, Jr.
- British Isles Suite - Larry Daehn
I. Marching Song
II. Barbara Allen
III. Farewell, Dundee
- Highlights from Les Miserables - Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg, arranged by Johnnie Vinson
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SUPERSTATE CONCERT BAND FESTIVAL
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
May 6, 2005
- Symphonic Band
- The American Dream - James A. Beckel, Jr.
- Cajun Folk Songs - Frank Ticheli
- Polka from "Schwanda the Bagpiper" - Jaromir Weinberger,
trans. by Glenn C. Bainum

IGSMA STATE CONTEST
April 23, 2005
- Symphonic Band
- Circus Days - Karl King
- Cajun Folk Songs - Frank Ticheli
- Polka from "Schwanda the Bagpiper" - Jaromir Weinberger,
trans. by Glenn C. Bainum
MARCH CONCERT
March 10, 2005
- 5th Grade Band
- Train Heading West - Timothy Broege
I. Prairie Ritual
II. Rain on the Mountain
III. Train Heading West
- Outback - Andrew Will
- Concert Band
- Atlantis - Anne McGinty
- California Girls - Brian Wilson, arranged by Mike Story
- Gates of Orion - Michael Sweeney
- Hound Dog - Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, arranged by Michael
Sweeney
IGSMA DISTRICT CONTEST
March 12, 2005
- Symphonic Band
- Circus Days - Karl King
- Prelude and Fugue in Bb Major - J. S. Bach, arranged by Roland
Moehlmann
- Polka from "Schwanda the Bagpiper" - Jaromir Weinberger,
trans. by Glenn C. Bainum
BEGINNER BAND CONCERT
March 2, 2005
- Beginner Band
- Cardiff by the Sea - Traditional
- Hot Cross Buns - English Folk Song
- Au Clair de la Lune - French Folk Song
- Down by the Station - Traditional
- Merrily We Roll Along - Traditional
- Lightly Row - Traditional
- Song of the Fjords - Norwegian Folk Song
- Farm Out - Traditional
- Sweetly Sings the Donkey - Traditional
- Mary Ann - West Indies Folk Song
- Symphonic Band
- Circus Days - Karl King
- Peace Song - Timothy Broege
- Polka from "Schwanda the Bagpiper" - Jaromir Weinberger,
trans. by Glenn C. Bainum
- Combined Bands
- The Micky Mouse March - Jimmie Dodd, arranged by Michael Sweeney
MENC NORTH CENTRAL CONFERENCE
Michigan Music Education In-Service Conference
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
January 21, 2005
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- Symphonic Band
- March: Seventeen Come Sunday - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Variation Overture - Clifton Williams
- Kentucky 1800 - Clare Grundman
- Shenandoah - Frank Ticheli
- Onafade Noslo for Tenor Saxophone and Concert Band - Don Owens
(World Premier)
- Prelude and Fugue in Bb Major - J. S. Bach, arranged by Roland
Moehlmann
- Pride of the Wolverines - John Philip Sousa, edited by Frederick
Fennell

WINTER CONCERT
December 7, 2004
- Symphonic Band
- March: Seventeen Come Sunday - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Kentucky 1800 - Clare Grundman
- Shenandoah - Frank Ticheli
- Pride of the Wolverines - John Philip Sousa, edited by Frederick
Fennell
FALL/WINTER CONCERT
November 17, 2004
- 5th Grade Band
- Dragon Slayer - Rob Grice
- Coldwater Creek - Robert Sheldon
- Concert Band
- Fire Dance - Douglas Akey
- In the Midnight Hour - Steve Cropper and Wilson Pickett, arranged
by Johnnie Vinson
- Combined Bands
- God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood, arranged by Michael Sweeney
FALL CONCERT
October 13, 2004
- Symphonic Band
- The Star Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key, arranged by
John Kinyon
- Olympic Fanfare and Theme - John Williams, arranged by James
Curnow
- Cathedral - Lloyd Conley
- Prelude and Fugue in Bb Major - J. S. Bach, arranged by Roland
Moehlmann
- Three Ayres from Gloucester - Hugh Stuart
I. The Jolly Earl of Cholmondeley
- Variation Overture - Clifton Williams
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