Excerpt from Pacific Coast Musical Review, Vol. 17: October 2, 1909 March 26, 1910 Henry Hadley, who has just been appointed conductor of the Seattle Orchestra, was born in Somerville in 1874, his father, S. Henry Hadley, being a well-known musician, condue tor and teacher. As a boy of twelve years young Hadley evinced a marked originality in composition, and before studying he wrote fluently in the lighter forms, as well as short movements for string quartettes. He pursued his studies with Stephen Emery at the New England Conservatory and later with George W. Chadwick. At twenty years of age he composed his first serious overture for orchestra, Hector and Andro mache, which work was performed in New York under Wal ter Damrosch at a concert of the Manuscript Society at Chick ering Hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.