 In 1925, Henry Cowell made Salzedo an honorary member of the New Music Society of California's endorsement board.Salzedo raised money to buy a pipe organ in Seal Harbor, with matching funds from John D. Rockefeller, and later, was most notably able to raise sufficient funds to aid Vaslav Nijinsky and his family to escape into safety in Switzerland.Salzedo based his teaching technique on the aesthetics of arm movement, focusing on the movements of specific body parts.