McCracken Middle School Band Programs

ALL BANDS CONCERT

Niles North High School
May 19, 2008

• Beginner Band
  • Jim Along Josie - Traditional
  • Skip it Lou - Traditional
  • On the March - Forrest Buchtel
• 5th Grade Band
  • Chant for Percussion - Andrew Balent
  • Safari - James Ployhar
  • Cold Hearted - Elliot Wolff, arranged by Mike Story
• Concert Band
  • Knights of the Round Table - Tom Rudolph and Drew Shanefield
  • Majestica - Brian Balmages
  • Play Elvis - arranged. by Spencer H. Klevenow and Ransford E. Pierce
• Symphonic Band
  • Star Wars Medley - John Williams, arranged by John Tatgenhorst
  • Dance Episodes - James Curnow
  • Norwegian Wood - John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arranged by Kenneth Whitcomb
  • Ciacona in C minor - Dietrich Buxtehude, arranged by Chip De Stefano

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SUPERSTATE CONCERT BAND FESTIVAL

May 2, 2008

• Symphonic Band
  • English folk Song Suite - Ralph Vaughan Williams
    I. March: Seventeen Come Sunday
    II. Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy
    III. March: Folk Songs from Somerset
  • Ciacona in C minor - Dietrich Buxtehude, arr. by Chip De Stefano

IGSMA STATE FESTIVAL

April 26, 2008

• Symphonic Band
  • When the Stars Began to Fall - Fred Allen
  • English folk Song Suite - Ralph Vaughan Williams
    I. March: Seventeen Come Sunday
    II. Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy
    III. March: Folk Songs from Somerset

MARCH CONCERT

March 12, 2008

• 5th Grade Band
  • The Winner's March - Forrest Buchtel
  • The Crusaders - Frank Erickson
  • Safari - James Ployhar
• Concert Band
  • Trumpet Voluntary - Henry Purcess, arr. by Brad Schoener
  • Midnight Suite - Brian Balmages
    I. Midnight Mission
    III. Midnight Madness
  • Nottingham Castle - Larry Daehn
• Combined Bands
  • Dragons in the Mist - Randy Navarre

IGSMA DISTRICT CONTEST

March 8, 2008

• Symphonic Band
  • English folk Song Suite - Ralph Vaughan Williams
    I. March: Seventeen Come Sunday
  • When the Stars Began to Fall - Fred Allen
  • Parade of the Wooden Warriors - Adam Gorb

BEGINNER BAND CONCERT

March 5, 2008

• Beginner Band
  • Hot Cross Buns
  • Au Clair de la Lune
  • Mary Had a Little Lamb
  • The Cuckoo
  • Lightly Row
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  • London Bridge
• Symphonic Band
  • English folk Song Suite - Ralph Vaughan Williams
    I. March: Seventeen Come Sunday
  • When the Stars Began to Fall - Fred Allen
  • Parade of the Wooden Warriors - Adam Gorb
• Combined Bands
  • Jingle Bells

BandDirector.com Live Webcast

December 17, 2007< Michael Pressler, guest conductor

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• McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band
  • Tricycle - Andrew Boysen, Jr.
  • A Renaissance Revel - Tielman Susato, arranged by Kenneth Singleton
    I. La Morisque
    II. Pavane: Si Par Souffrir
    III. Ronde & Salterelle
    IV. Ronde & Aliud
  • Lydian Lullaby - Robert Sheldon
  • Overture for Winds - Charles Carter
  • Simple Gifts - Frank Ticheli
    I. In Yonder Valley
    II. Dance
    III. Here take this Lovely Flower
    IV. Simple Gifts
  • The King Across the Water - Bruce Fraser
    I. Battle
    II. Lament
    III. Dancing

Winter Concert

December 6, 2007

• McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band
  • Overture for Winds - Charles Carter
  • Simple Gifts - Frank Ticheli
    I. In Yonder Valley
    II. Dance
    III. Here take this Lovely Flower
    IV. Simple Gifts
  • The King Across the Water - Bruce Fraser
    I. Battle
    II. Lament
    III. Dancing
  • Richard Rogers in Concert - arr. Paul Murtha

Annual Fall Concert

Joint Concert with Lincoln Middle School
Park Ridge, Illinois (Brian Jacobi, director)
October 15, 2007

• Lincoln Middle School Symphonic Band
  • Music for Queen Mary (1695) - Henry Purcell, arranged by Robert Garofalo
    I. March (Sounded before her chariot.)
    II. Canzona (Sounded in Westminster Abbey.)
  • Ammerland - Jacob deHaan
  • Circus Bee - Henry Fillmore, arranged by Calvin Custer
• McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band
  • Tricycle - Andrew Boysen, Jr.
  • A Renaissance Revel - Tielman Susato, arranged by Kenneth Singleton
    I. La Morisque
    II. Pavane: Si Par Souffrir
    III. Ronde & Salterelle
    IV. Ronde & Aliud
  • The Rainbow Connection - Kenneth Ascher & Paul Williams, arranged by John Moss
  • Simple Gifts - Frank Ticheli
    I. In Yonder Valley
    II. Dance
• Combined McCracken Middle Symphonic Band and Lincoln Middle School Symphonic Band
  • Ancient City of Stone - Kirk Vogel