(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Lazare Saminsky, the Jewish composer, was elected honorary member of the Royal Academy in Florence, Italy, for his services on behalf of contemporary art.
Mr. Saminsky, who has lived in New York for a number of years, conducted his symphonies, operas and ballets in performances given during the past few seasons by the New York Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Colonne Orchestra of Paris and at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London. He is a musical director of the Temple Emanu-El, New York.
He began his career as conductor of the Petrograd University choir and was later director of a choral society in London, also musical director of the Duke of York’s Theatre. Among his works are three symphonies, several ballets and operas and numerous songs published in America and in Europe. Mr. Saminsky has been invited to address the Florentine Academy, which he will do during the summer, including among his subjects that of contemporary American music.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
