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2004 – 2005 Concert Programs

2005 McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band SuperState Photo

2004-2005 Band Yearbook Page

All Bands Concert

Niles North High School
May 23, 2005

Chip De Stefano, conductor

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

May 6, 2005

Chip De Stefano, conductor

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

Chip De Stefano, conductor

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

Chip De Stefano, conductor

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

Chip De Stefano, conductor

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

Chip De Stefano, conductor

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

IMEA All State Conference

Beyond Their Years: Musical and Technical Excellence in Young Bands
Chip De Stefano & Karen Debauche

Peoria, Illinois
January 28, 2005

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Members of the Symphonic Band and Urbana Middle School Band

  • Kentucky 1800 – Clare Grundman
  • Shenandoah – Frank Ticheli
  • Rough Riders – Karl King

MENC North Central Conference

Michigan Music Education In-Service Conference
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
January 21, 2005

Chip De Stefano, conductor
Don Owens, guest conductor
Sarah Evans, student teacher conductor
Matthew Olson, tenor saxophone

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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
  • MENC NORTH CENTRAL CONFERENCE

Winter Concert

December 7, 2004

Chip De Stefano, conductor
Rebecca Dzuricsko, student teacher conductor

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

Chip De Stefano, conductor
Rebecca Dzuricsko, student teacher conductor

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

Chip De Stefano, conductor

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