McCracken Middle School Band Programs
1997 - 1998
Chip De Stefano, Conductor
ALL BANDS CONCERT
Niles North High School
May 21, 1998
- Beginner Band
- Big Chief Tomahawk - Fred Weber
- A Touch of Baroque - Sandy Feldstein and John O'Reilly
- 5th Grade Band
- Grandfather's Clock - Traditional, arrnaged by John Kinyon
- Sunrise, Sunset - Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, arranged
by John Edmondson
- Alleluia - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arranged by John O'Reilly
- Brass Quartet
- Primi Toni - Johann Pachabel, arranged by Robert King
- Concert Band
- Hound Dog - Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, arranged by Michael
Sweeney
- The Huron Carol - French Folk Song, arranged by John Edmondson
- Thunder Bay Legend - David Shaffer
- Symphonic Band
- The Great Wall: Songs of China - arranged by Anne McGinty
- Aurora Borealis - David Zabriskie (World Premier)
- On My Own - Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, arranged
by Johnnie Vinson
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Louis Lambert, arranged
by Frank Erickson
- Percussion Ensemble
- The Evening News - Chris Brooks
MARCH CONCERT
March 12, 1998
- 5th Grade Band
- Stony Creek March - Anne McGinty
- This Old Man - Traditional, arranged by Peter Reynolds
- Of Castles and Kings - Frank Erickson
- Baywood Overture - James Swearington
- Concert Band
- American Patrol - F. W. Meacham, arranged by John Kinyon
- Deux Chansons Francaises - Laurie Lafferty
- Aura Lee - Traditional, arranged by John Kinyon
- Little Big Horn - James MacBeth
- God Bless the U.S.A. - Lee Greenwood, arranged by Michael
Sweeney
- Arlington Overture - Anne McGinty
IGSMA STATE CONTEST
April 1998
- Symphonic Band
- March - "Seventeen Come Sunday" - Ralph Vaughan
Williams
- Frasier's Grove Suite - Steve Hodges
- Spirit! - Douglas Akey
IGSMA DISTRICT CONTEST
March 1998
- Symphonic Band
- March - "Seventeen Come Sunday" - Ralph Vaughan
Williams
- Portrait of a Clown - Frank Ticheli
- Spirit! - Douglas Akey (World Premier)
BEGINNER BAND CONCERT
March 5, 1998
- 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
- Sweetly Sings the Donkey - Traditional
- Mary Ann - West Indies Folk Song
- Symphonic Band
- March - "Seventeen Come Sunday" - Ralph Vaughan
Williams
- Portrait of a Clown - Frank Ticheli
- Spirit! - Douglas Akey
- Combined Bands
- The Micky Mouse March - Jimmie Dodd, arranged by Michael Sweeney
WINTER CONCERT
December 10, 1997
- Symphonic Band
- Fantasie Noel - Douglas Akey
- In the Bleak Mid-Winter - Gustav Holst, arranged by Robert
W. Smith
- Blessing of the Hannukah Candles - Folk Song, arranged by
Chip De Stefano
- Tournament - Stephen Bulla
FALL CONCERT
October 20, 1997
- Symphonic Band
- Manhattan Beach - John Philip Sousa, arranged by Nick Contorno
- Sarabanda and Gavotta - Arcangelo Corelli, arranged by Clair
W. Johnson
- The Red Balloon - Anne McGinty
- Gypsydance - David Holsinger
- A Quiet Rain - Walter Cummings
- Peregrin (A Traveler's Tale) - Douglas Akey
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