New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Two Conductors
For Philharmonic
Next Season

Henry Hadley will be associate con-
ductor with Josef Stransky for the
coming season of the Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra. The board of
directors has invited an American to
occupy this position, contrary, to the
precedent which has been observed in
this country for many years.
The Philharmonic Orchestra is sched-
uled to give eighty concerts in New
York and the East, and approximately
seventy on the road, during the season
of 1920-'21. The seventy out-of-town
concerts will be included in ten weeks
tour, from March to June, 1921. and
will cover the principal cities as far
west as the Pacific Coast, where the
new Philharmonic conductor has al
ready won reputation with mis- baton.
Mr. Hadley is an American whose
work as composer and conductor is
known throughout the country. His
last work heard here was the two-act
opera "Cleopatra's Night" produced at
the Metropolitan Opera House this
season.
son Of s. Henry and Martha IN T iHaa,
(Conant) Hadley, he showed marked
ability in musical composition before
ne was twelve years old. Under in
struction by his father, known through
out eastern Massachusetts as musician.
conductor and teacher, he learned to
play the piano and violin and composed
fiuently in the lighter forms of music
before he studied theory.
His first studies in composition were
at the New England Conservatory of
Music, and at the age of twenty he
composed his first orchestral piece, the
overture, Hector and Andromache. %
performed in New York under Walter
Damrosch. He had studied the violin
coincidentally with composition, and in
1893 toured the United States as leader
with the Laura Schirmer Mapleson
Opera Company.
At Vienna, whittier he went the fol-
lowing summer to study counterpart.
he completed his Ballet Suite, No. 3,
which was first heard in New York at
concert Of the Manuscript Society,
and later included in the repertoire
Of Sam Franko's American Symphony
I Orchestra.
From 1895-1so2 Mr.. Hadley was d.
rector Of the music department of St.
PauPs School, Garden City, L. L., com
posing during this fruitful period the
following works: Two symphonies,
Youth and Life first produced under
Anton Seidl in 1897, and 1.-THE Four
Seasons" which won the New England
Conservatory and Paderewski prizes in
1902, and successfully circled the
world. An overture, SIN Bohemia" irst
produced by Victor Herbert; an over
ture to Stephen Phillips's tragedy,
~Herod,"'; the cantata, "In Music's
I, int1 %Lo
Company's prize; an Oriental Suite"
produced under the composers direc-
ton at the Metropolitan Opera House;
$50 songs, and the incidental music to
two plays, "The Daughter of Hamil-
car" and Audrey"
After leaving ST. Paul's Mr.. HadIey
composed comic opera, Nancy
Brown" and in 1904 went again to
Europe, where he continued. compost
tion and conducting. His tone poem,
"Salome," was performed sunder his
direction in many European capitals,
and was also heard in the United
States (1907). Meantime his rhapsody
"The Culprit Fay had won the ST 900
returned in 1909 to conduct it's prenf-
ere by the Theodore Thomas Orches-
ira.
Mr.; Hadley then conducted the
Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 1911,
later going to San Francisco to con-
duct the San Francisco Orchestra for
four years In June, 1918, he con-
Quoted the premiere Of his ssLucifer,s
tone poem, at the Norfolk Comm
Festival.
+ His choral work to Dr.. van Dykes
poem, ode to Music, was composed
~ Mr.. ,Hadley for the Worcester
County Music Festival OF 1917, and
his one-act opsra, Blanca" won the
Hinshaw prize.