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...
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