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Scan 337
Newark City Directory 1916, 1916
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1Sunday concert at the Metropolitan Opera House under the composer's direction; 150 songs and the incidental music to two plays, "The Daughter of Hamilear," and "Audrey." Of these the "Four Seasons" symphony has been the most widely heard, having been performed in all the principal cities of the United States, in London under Sir Villiers Stanford, and in Warsaw under Mylinaski. After leaving St. Paul's School, Mr. Hadley composed a comic opera, "Nancy Brown," and then went to Europe again (1904) where he continued composition and appeared in many cities as a conductor. His tone-poem, "Salome" was performed under his direction in Berlin, Cassel, Warsaw, Monte Carlo, Wiesbaden, etc., and was also heard in the United States, where it was first played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra April 12, 1907. In 1908 he became attached to the Stadt-theater at Mayence, where he brought out a one-act opera "Safie." The first performance was on April 6, 1909, with Miss Marguerite Lemon in the leading role.
3Meantime his rhapsody, "The Culprit Fay," had won the $1,000 prize offered by the National Federation of Musical Clubs (America) and in May, 1909 the composer returned to this country to conduct its first performance by the Theodore Thomas orchestra. He then accepted an appointment as conductor of the Seattle (Wash.) Symphony Orchestra and began his duties in October, 1909, which position he held two years. In 1911 he conducted his Fourth Symphony "North, East, South and West" for the Norfolk (Conn.) Music Festival. The same month he conducted this symphony in Queen's Hall, London, and in September of the same year he conducted it at the Worcester (Mass.) Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1911 he became the conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra for four seasons. His other productions are a third symphony (1906), a concert piece for violoncello and orchestra (1907); a church service, seven ballads for chorus and orchestra, a string quartette, a piano quintette, a violin sonata, and other lesser works.
5Mr. Hadley's later works include the music for "The Atonement of Pan," a festival play written for the Bohemian Club Grove (1912); Lucifer (a tone-poem) 1913, written for the Norfolk Festival and performed under his direction in Norfolk, and "Izora, daughter of Montezuma," a grand opera in three acts (1914).
7In 1910 he made his appearance with the Chicago, Boston, New York and Philadelphia orchestras as composer-conductor. He has had over 100 performances of his works in America and Europe.
9Just previous to the pageant, namely, on Sunday, May 28, the churches of the city will hold their union service mass meeting in the same amphitheatre, at Weequahic Park, under the conduct of the Rt. Rev. Edwin S. Lines, D.D., assisted by the members of the Church Participation Committee of the Committee of One Hundred.
11In June the city and interscholastic Athletic Championships will be held at Weequahic Park, on the new green and track built for the anniversary Athletics last autumn by Sparrow Robertson. On September 8 and 9th the amateur Athletic Union championships will be held in the same place. These are the world's greatest athletic events for 1916 and should establish new records in the history of athletics.
13On this subject, Mr. Fred W. Rubien, Secretary-Treasurer of the A. A. N. writes as follows:
15Newark's Great Athletic Events
17When the gates are thrown open at Weequahic Park, Newark, N. J., for the National Amateur Athletic Union Track and Field Championships in September, Uncle Sam's great athletes will have at their disposal one of the fastest tracks and the best equipped athletic field in the country.
19The quarter-mile running track has been finished for some time, and the jumping pits and rings for the weight events will be finished as soon as the condition of the soil will permit in the spring. This beautiful quarter-mile oval is located inside of the old Waverly Trotting Track, which played so important a part in trotting history years ago, and is so arranged that all of the finishes will be directly in front of the new grandstand.
21My reasons for believing that the track is athletically perfect are based on refinements of track construction, which have been applied in the construction of this track.
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