FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HI SIXTY-NINTH SEASON 1949- 1950 Tuesday Evening Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN, Jm. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT J. DUNKLE, J«. ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, Jr. HERBERT SEARS TUCKERMAN OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description "A Good Reputation Does Not Just Happen — It Must Be Earned." Boston, Mass. Los Angeles, California 108 Water Street 3275 Wilshire Blvd. Telephone Lafayette 3-5700 Dunkirk 8-3316 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SIXTY-NINTH SEASON, 1949-1950 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Conductor Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. 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Constable, Curator of Paintings at the Museum, has kindly written the j olio wing description of Monet's art. The Impressionist painters, once de- rided and abused, are today on the way to being regarded as old masters; and Monet, whose painting exhibited in 1874 under the title of "Impression: Soleil Levant," won for the group a nickname which was adopted by the painters themselves as a description, is recognized as a chef d'ecole. Whether he was the greatest painter in his circle, which included such giants as Renoir, Degas, Sisley and Pissarro, is quite an- other question; but in the face of neglect, poverty and derision, no one of them adhered more firmly to the ideals he conceived proper for painting, or brought greater skill and resolution to realizing those ideals on canvas. The essential element of Impression- ism is that the painter takes as his ma- terial what his eyes see, and not what his mind knows to be there. It follows that the main interest of the^mpression- ist painter is in light, in all its muta- tions and variations ; since according to the character, amount, and direction of the light, visual appearance is deter- mined. In such an approach to paint- ing, Monet was, of course, not a pioneer. EXQUISITES Velazquez in his maturity is a master who treats his subjects not in terms . .for of preconceived forms, but as patches of varying lights and darks, whose shape and relative tone depends on the Christmas giving way the light falls; Goya often follows the same path; and both were teachers Beautifully luxurious and a source of inspiration to Courbet, gowns and slips with the and to Manet. In England, Constable prised Fischer label . and Turner found in light the dominant Infinitely fine Yolande element in landscape; and while Monet and Pissarro were in England during hand made lingerie . the Franco-Prussian war, they both Famous Barbizon slips studied the these two painters. work of . Filmy nylon gowns "There is Constable's famous remark, from Carter and Vanity nothing ugly or beautiful in Nature, but Fair All make com- light, shade and perspective make it so," ... might well be a text for the Impres- pletely charming gifts. sionist painter. But it was Monet who pushed this conception of the limitations and pos- rn — sibilities of painting to its furthest point, LAMSONHUBBARD and won the grudging admiration of Cezanne, reported in the remark, "Monet is only an eye. But, good God, what an eye!" Under the influence of that enchanting painter of seas and shipping, Eugene Boudin, his interest in light developed early; but it was not until he began systematically to paint in the open air, that he began intensive study of the influences of light upon color. From this resulted ultimately the technique which became characteristic of developed Impressionist painting the high key, with great subtlety in color modifications; the broken touch, to give vibrancy and luminosity; and the shadows painted with reference not only to the local color of an object, but to reflected light from the sky and elsewhere, and to the influence of color complementary to that of the adjacent lights. So much did light and its effect on color become the main theme of Monet's work, that in his late years he increasingly confined himself to paint- ing the same scene under different con- ditions of light, making of each an in- dependent work of art, "dipt in the richest tinctures of the skies." It is sometimes thought, as Cezanne implied, that Monet's paintings are little more than registration of a visual im- pression, a kind of colored photography. Nothing could be further from the truth. While limiting his material to what the eye could see, he used this to build up skilfully integrated designs, largely based on silhouette and upon arrange- ment of color. In other words, he was not only an eye, but a creative artist. In understanding and appreciation of the Impressionists, Boston collectors played an early and prominent part. It There is nothing quite is said that the first Impressionist pic- ture sold outside France, was bought comparable to the aura by a Bostonian; and so early as the imparted eighties, others found their way here, of elegance precursors of many other purchases. The by regal mink. Select later work of Monet was in particular admired and sought after; and this, your mink garment with combined with a great generosity towards the Museum of Fine Arts, ex- confidence from the col- plains the exceptionally fine and repre- Lamson-Hub- sentative group of Impressionist paint- lection of ings, and especially of Monet, pos- bard, furriers to New sessed by the Museum, of which those on exhibition at Symphony Hall form England women for a part, while others can be seen at the Museum itself. rseyenty-nine years. W. G. Constable, Curator of Paintings. Coat sketched, $2400, plus tax LUMSON-UUBKMDJ [4l silhouette HATTIE CARXECIE defines the urbane suit for check tweed. 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