Creatore and His Band

              Jai Alai Building St. Louis
SUMMER NIGHT CONCERTS

Commencing Saturday Night, May 23, 1908
AT POPULAR PRICES
SMOKING and REFRESHMENTS AT TABLES



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CREATORE And His BAND
Madame BARILI, SOPRANO SOLOIST
Under the Management of MR. HOWARD PEW, 121 West 42d St., New York
SEE PROGRAM INSIDE





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Artistic and Educational
SELDOM enough in any city are music lovers privileged to listen to instrumental music of such peculiar charm and interest as that heard at the Creatore Band Concerts.  Every one admits these musical entertainments to be unique, and careful students of music in every large American city and in many places in Europe have admitted the educational value of listening to and studying Creatore in his masterly interpretation and striking performance of the grandest works of the musical masters.

Creatore is acknowledged by the most competent critics to be the grandest example of musical expression and phrasing.  The head of one of the largest music schools in America has said that Creatore does more to make people love music and realize its possibilities than any musical feature of our time.  Hundreds of parents are spending thousands of dollars annually on the musical education of their children, and they should not neglect this most essential element of the ideal.  There is imperative need of this inspiration and these glimpses of art in its higher realm which the genius of Creatore affords.




SOME LONDON PRESS LINES

London Daily Telegraph.
—The combined tone is full of color, and the brass of great richness and power.  The ensemble is up to the highest standard we have had in London, and it is a human ensemble, not of the machine-made order, while the playing is very expressive and full of point.


Pall Mall Gazette.
—Creatore's methods are entirely new, but superlatively effective.  He certainly did wonders.


London Daily Express.
—Incomparably fine—the most notable band concert London has heard.


London Daily Mail.
—The band is singularly efficient.  Its playing is remarkably finished and full of rich delicacy.


London Musical Standard.
—Creatore and his band are remarkable and supremely excellent.


London Morning Leader.
—In phrasing Creatore's band has no equal, and it contains some remarkable virtuosi.




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Excerpt from Signor Creatore's Letter on the
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SOME METROPOLITAN LINES

New York World.
—Received the most remarkable ovation ever accorded a like organization by any audience in this city—the biggest hit of the season.


New York Herald.
—Seldom has such enthusiasm been seen in a New York theatre.  After the sextette from Lucia the applause was deafening, and people climbed upon their chairs to cheer, etc., etc.


New York Journal and American.
—Creatore is unique among bandmasters.  He seemed to be the spirit of the music rendered.  He electrified both his musicians and his audience, and the ovation given him has not been equalled in this city.


New York Tribune.
—The magnetism which rules the band soon swayed the audience.  When Creatore shook back his hair and strained up on tiptoe to his climax, the entire house broke out, not in hand-clapping, but in spontaneous cheers.  It was a genuine tribute.


New York Times.
—An extraordinary success.  The quality of the work done by the organization and the methods of the leader have attracted universal attention.  These methods are original but supremely successful, and greatly please the audiences that crowd the theatre.


New York Daily Telegram.
—Creatore has captured music-loving New York.  Only a glance is necessary to convince an observer that New Yorkers are now music-mad.  Other leaders have been well known for years, but Creatore conquered in a night.  When he appeared on the stage for his first concert his personality attracted attention at once.  From the time he rapped with his baton on the music stand and began to lead, the house was stilled.  It appeared to the audience that the man had hpynotic influence over the band.  When the selection was completed there were shrieks and cries of Bravo which showed that he had thrilled his audience.  Since that first night Creatore has become a craze.  The audience marvels at the music, and wonders at the remarkable gestures of the man who is so completely wrapped up in his art and his labor that he never notices that an audience is listening to or watching him.


Boston Transcript.
—Every day that Creatore stays with us we appreciate as so much added to our musical life.  We wish a band such a he breathes passion into at every concert would establish itself in Boston.




SOPRANO SOLOIST With CREATORE and His BAND
MME, JOANNA BARILI, the prima donna soprano, who is strongly identified with the success of this organization, has been its only vocal soloist for several years.  She is a woman of great beauty, queenly bearing and charming stage presence, and possesses a voice of the rarest beauty and purity.  She sings soprano with a quality of the highest charm, clear, pure, flexible, and of remarkable smoothness throughout.

Mme. Barili's voice shows high cultivation, the effect  her early training and subsequent studies.  She is a member of the famous BARILI-PATTI family, has studied with the best Italian teachers, and thoroughly understands the art of singing.


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London Telegraph.
—Arditi's valse song, Parla, was fluently sung by Mme. BARILI.


London Advertiser.
—The vocalist was Mme. BARILI, who used a pleasant soprano voice to good advantage.


London Era.
—Mme. BARILI was the solo vocalist, and revealed a soprano voice pure and fluent, beautifully accompanied by the band.


London Express.
—Mme. BARILI, a soprano of great sweetness and culture, sang Arditi's popular Parla in a fashion which called forth a clamorous encore.


London Black and White.
—Mme. BARILI, who was the vocal soloist at Creatore's attractive concerts, is a distinguished American soprano, trained according to the best traditions of the old Italian bel canto, and she revealed, in her selections, great dramatic perception.


New York Musical Courier.
—Having an exquisitely pure soprano voice, well trained and brought to the limit of artistic finish by Creatore's exacting rehearsals, the singing of Mme.  BARILI affords a treat that is as rare as it is valuable as a lesson.  A beautiful woman, full of grace and charm, her modest and unposeful self-effacement before her art is another lesson which might well be followed by others.


Boston Globe.
—Mme. BARILI, charming as ever in pale blue and silver, sang Gounod's immortal Ave Maria with the true spirit, and every note in it seemed like liquid gold.




Grand Opening Summer Concerts
Jai Alai Garden
ST. LOUIS

Saturday Night, May 23 Program


1.
MARCH, The Leader,

Creatore


2.
OVERTURE, William Tell,

Rossini


3.
SARABANDE ESPAGNOLE

Massenet


4.
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIE, No. 2,

Liszt




INTERMISSION



5.
WALTZ, Blue Danube,

Strauss


6.
SEXTETTE from Lucia,

Donizetti



Solos by Signori DEMITRIS, SPORTELLI, ROSSI, ERRICO, MANZI
and PALLARIA




7.
a. GAVOTTE from Mignon,

Thomas



b. LOIN DU BALL,

Gillet


8.
CAPRICE ITALIEN,

Tschaikowsky





Sunday Night, May 24 Program


1.
CORONATION MARCH from The Prophet,

Meyerbeer


2.
OVERTURE, Mignon,

Thomas


3.
RONDE D'AMOUR,

Von Westerhout


4.
GRAND SELECTION, Pagliacci,

Leoncavallo


a. Prologue. b. Scena and Chorus of the Bells. c. Scena and
Finale Act I. d. Intermezzo. e. Chorus, Presto affretiamoci.
f. Minuetto and Serenata of Arlecchino. g. Scena comica, Duet
and Finale.






Solos by Signori DEMITRIS, ROSSI and MANZI






INTERMISSION



5.
WALTZ, Tout Paris,

Waldteufel


6.
TRAUMEREI,

Schvmann


7.
BADINAGE

Herbert


8.
GRAND SELECTION, Mephistophele,

Boito



Solos by Signori DEMITRIS and ROSSI







Monday Night, May 25 Program


1.
MARCH, Columbus,

Creatore


2.
OVERTURE, Light Cavalry,

Suppe


3.
BOMBARDINO SOLO, Evening Star

Wagner




Signor DEMITRIS



4.
REMINISCENCES from Act III and IV, Andrea Chenier,

Giordano



Solos by Signori DEMITRIS and ROSSI






INTERMISSION



5.
WALTZ, Estudiantine,

Waldteufel


6.
ALBUMBLATT,

Wagner


7.
POLKA, Scherzando,

Preite


8.
GRAND SELECTION, Carmen,

Bizet



a. Prelude. b. Habanera. c. Toreador Song. d. Gypsy Song.
e. Entr'Acte. f. March and Chorus. g. Finale.





Solos by Signori DEMITRIS, ROSSI MANZI and MONTANERO





The STARR PIANO is Used by Signor CREATORE.  The C. G. CONN INSTRUMENTS Used and Recommended by CREATORE BAND