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2001 – 2002 Concert Programs

2001-2002 Band Yearbook Page

All Bands Concert

Nile North High School
May 22, 2002

Chip De Stefano, conductor
Tina Keitel, percussion ensemble conductor

Symphonic Band

  • Australian Folk Fantasy – Mark Williams
  • Gamelon – Walter Cummings
  • Shenandoah – Frank Ticheli
  • Highlights from Les Miserables – Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg, arranged by Johnnie Vinson

Percussion Ensemble

  • A La Nanigo – Mitchell Peters

Concert Band

  • Ancient Voices – Michael Sweeney
  • Russian Sailor’s Dance – R. Gliere, arranged by Andrew Balent
  • Cascade Festival Overture – Mark Williams

Clarinet Choir

  • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair – Stephen Foster, arranged by Chip De Stefano

5th Grade Band

  • All Through the Night – Traditional, arranged by Fred Eager
  • Russian Song and Dance – Russian Folk Songs, arranged by Andrew Balent
  • Coldwater Creek – Robert Sheldon

Beginner Band

  • You’re a Grand Old Flag – George M. Cohan
  • A Touch of Baroque – Sandy Feldstein and John O’Reilly

Skokie Festival of Cultures

May 18, 2002

Chip De Stefano, conductor

Symphonic Band

  • America the Beautiful – Samuel Ward, arranged by Chip De Stefano
  • Kachina – Anne McGinty
  • Australian Folk Fantasy – Mark Williams
  • Gamelon – Walter Cummings
  • Highlights from Les Miserables – Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schnberg, arranged by Johnnie Vinson

IGSMA State Contest

April 27, 2002

Chip De Stefano, conductor

Symphonic Band

  • Liberty Spirit March – Patrick Wilson
  • Prelude and Fugue in B flat – J. S. Bach, arranged by R. Moehlmann
  • Tales of the Emerald Isle – Douglas Akey
    (Commissioned by the Skokie School District 73 1/2 Foundation for the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band)

Plainfield Band Festival

April 26, 2002

Chip De Stefano, conductor

Symphonic Band

  • Baywood Overture – James Swearingen
  • Shenandoah – Frank Ticheli
  • Overture in B flat – Ceasar Giovaninni, arranged by Wayne Robinson

World Premier Performance – School Assembly

March 15, 2002
Douglas Akey, guest conductor

Symphonic Band

  • Tales of the Emerald Isle – Douglas Akey
    (Commissioned by the Skokie School District 73 1/2 Foundation for the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band)

March Concert

March 14, 2002

Chip De Stefano, conductor
Douglas Akey, guest conductor

5th Grade Band

  • March Ahead – Sandy Feldstein and John O’Reilly
  • Mountainbrook March – Douglas Akey
  • Big Rock Candy Mountain – Traditional, arranged by Sandy Feldstein and John O’Reilly

Concert Band

  • Royal March – John Kinyon
  • Arlington Overture – Anne McGinty
  • Fire Dance – Douglas Akey

IMEA Music Education Day at the Capitol

Clarinet Choir at CapitolMarch 13, 2002

Chip De Stefano, conductor

Clarinet Choir

  • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – W. A. Mozart, arranged by Eric Sati
  • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair – Stephen Foster, arranged by Chip De Stefano
  • Canzona per Sonare No. 2 – Giovanni Gabrieli
  • “Minuet” from Water Music – G.F. Handel, arranged by Chip De Stefano

IGSMA District Contest

March 9, 2002

Chip De Stefano, conductor

Concert Band

  • The Liberty Bell -John Phillip Sousa, arranged by Eric Osteriling
  • Pevensy Castle – Robert Shelton
  • Fire Dance – Douglas Akey

Symphonic Band

  • Liberty Spirit March – Patrick Wilson
  • Overture in B flat – Ceasar Giovaninni, arranged by Wayne Robinson
  • Tales of the Emerald Isle – Douglas Akey
    (Commissioned by the Skokie School District 73 1/2 Foundation for the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band)

Beginner Band Concert

February 27, 2002

Chip De Stefano, conductor

Beginner Band

  • 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

  • Liberty Spirit March – Patrick Wilson
  • Overture in B flat – Giovaninni arranged by Wayne Robinson
  • Tales of the Emerald Isle – Douglas Akey
    (Commissioned by the Skokie School District 73 1/2 Foundation for the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band)

Combined Bands

  • The Micky Mouse March – Jimmie Dodd, arranged by Michael Sweeney

Winter Concert

December 12, 2001

Chip De Stefano, conductor
Tina Keitel, percussion ensemble conductor

Symphonic Band

  • March: Seventeen Come Sunday – Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Yorkshire Ballad – James Barnes
  • Garlandstone: A Nautical Fantasy – Thomas Root
  • America the Beautiful

Clarinet Choir

  • Loch Lomond – Traditional, arranged by Chip De Stefano

Percussion Ensemble

  • March Time – David Eyler

Fall/Winter Concert

December 5, 2001

Chip De Stefano, conductor

Concert Band

  • Discovery Overture – Anne McGinty
  • Sunrise, Sunset – arr. by John Edmondson
  • Phantom of the Opera – Andrew Lloyd Webber, arranged by Michael Sweeney
  • Gates of Orion – Michael Sweeney

Clarinet Choir

  • Canzona per Sonare No. 2 – Giovanni Gabrieli, arranged by Thomas A. Ayres

Fall Concert

October 15, 2001

Chip De Stefano, conductor

Symphonic Band

  • The Star Spangled Banner
  • On a Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss – David Holsinger
  • Polly Oliver – Thomas Root
  • Wolsey’s Wilde – William Byrd, arranged by Doug Hartzell