Skokie Review – December 14, 2006 by Mike Isaacs The McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band under accomplished director Chip De Stefano is about to go where few middle school bands have gone before. And that doesn’t include the band’s performance...
Skokie Review – June 8, 2006 by Mike Isaacs It’s difficult to imagine many school bands more honored in a single month than the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band under director Chip De Stefano. The series of successes for De...
Skokie Review – February 10, 2005 The musical celebration in Ann Arbor, Michigan the weekend of Jan. 21, was highly anticipated by the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders from McCracken Middle School in Skokie. The Symphonic Band, which left on Jan....
Skokie Review – May 24, 2001 (and yes…that’s the actual headline they used!) The last concert of the season for the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band will be at 7 p.m. May 25 at Niles North High School, 9800 N....
THE NEWS – March 22, 1979 The Oakview junior high school concert band, sixty eight members strong, received a Division I or First Place rating at the annual Illinois Grade School Music Association District Band Contest held on Saturday March...
Skokie Review – March 28, 1968 Division I ratings were won by 73 youngsters from District 72.5’s Oakview Junior High School Concert Band, on Saturday March 16th, at the Elm School, Elmwood Park, Illinois, The Oakviewers, resplendent in their brand...