Hadley In New York

Although a native of Boston's Somerville, and forever associated with the creation of the Berkshires' Tanglewood Festival, New York is the city that claimed him to the greatest extent, remembered him best, and to the greatest extent considers him a household name today. Hadley extended his professional work in New York early in his career, returned regularly, and found his life's love there, settling in with a home base permanently in middle age.

New York's iconic Lewissohn Stadium in the 1920s. As Associate Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Hadley was exposed to thousands of New Yorkers who might never have heard him in Carnegie Hall, etching himself into New York lore and attaching his story to legendary musicians and concerts to follow.

Much of Hadley's activity and achievement in New York - musical theater, groundbreaking American opera and opera conducting, Manhattan Symphony, Gulbransen Radio Hour, vast programming of other American's compositions, premieres, educational programs, landmarks of film music composition and recording technology, and, finally posthumous tribute in ship naming, library archiving, recent memorializing in cartoons and crossword puzzles for New York cognoscenti - is illustrated elsewhere in this website. His will always be a legendary name there.