Appointments

The Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), endowed by Mary Louise Curtis Bok, wife of Publisher Edward William Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, boasts as imposing a staff as money can buy. Josef Casimir Hofmann is its director and heads the piano department. Marcella Sembrich is in charge of voice; Felix Salmond, 'cello; Louis Bailly, viola and chamber music; Carlos Salzedo, harp; Arthur Rodzinski. orchestra; Reginald O. Morris, theory and composition. Last week were added to the list Violinists Leopold Auer, now 82 years old, and Efrem Zimbalist, one of his many famed pupils, and Edward Bachman. Karl Flesch, it was announced, had retired, would leave soon for a concert tour of Europe.