The McCracken Winter Concert is almost here! This concert features the McCracken Middle School 6th Grade Glee Club, 7th Grade Concert Choir, 7th Grade Swing Choir, 8th Grade Swing Choir, and Symphonic Band. The Winter Concert will be performed at...
This past weekend I had the distinct pleasure of conducting the “Illinois” Band at the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Honors Band Festival. It was an amazing weekend. The kids were terrific, worked hard, and hopefully enjoyed themselves. I certainly did. Thank...
On Wednesday, November 16, 7:00 PM the McCracken Middle School Concert Band and Middleton Elementary School 5th Grade Band will present their annual Fall/Winter Concert. The 5th Grade Band will perform: March Ahead – Sandy Feldstein and John O’Reilly Chant...
What a great day! The IMEA District 7 Junior Band Festival was absolutely terrific. Dr. Ryan Nelson (Northwestern University) directed the band this year and did an amazing job. All the students worked very hard and the concert was one...
Wow. I never win anything like this, but we won the BandDirector.com giveaway in October. The prize? A terrific collection of CDs and DVDs from Mark Custom Recording that we’ll add to our school’s listening library. Awesome. Thanks to Dave...
On Monday morning, November 21, the Symphonic Band will perform at Meyer Primary School. It’ll be a nice, fun concert for the youngest students in our district. —–
Thanks to everyone who performed and attended our annual fundraiser at Barnes and Noble. It was a lot of fun! —–
As part of our preparation for our demonstration group performance at the Midwest Clinic we will be having a clinic with Steve Peterson on Friday morning from 7:20 – 9:30. Dr. Peterson was director of the Northwestern University Marching Band...
Our usual Concert Band rehearsal on Monday, October 31 will be instead held on Wednesday, November 2. I must be getting soft in my old age! —–
Concert time (Nov. 16) for the Concert Band and 5th Grade Band is coming very, VERY, quickly!!! To top is off we lose next Friday due ot the White Pines trip, and Friday, Nov. 11 to Veterans’ Day. To make...