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Show FORMER RESIDENT MADE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MUSIC AT B.Y.U. Leon Dallin, brilliant young California composer, member of the music department faculty at the University of Southern California Cal-ifornia and former resident of Springville has been appointed by the board of trustees of Brigham Young university to the BYU music faculty with the rank of assistant professor, Pres. Howard S. McDonald reports. Heraldod both as a teacher and a composer, Mr. Dallin has had his compositions played by the Rochester, N. Y., Civic symphony; by the Redlands, Calif., summer symphony, with himself a3 conductor; con-ductor; by the Warner Brothers studio orchestra as incidental music mu-sic for the motion picture "Music from the Mountain;" by various musical organizations at the Eastman East-man School of Music, Rochester, N. Y.; by the Interlochen National music camp band and orchestra, and over national hookups of the National' high school contest list for woodwind ensembles. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Dallin of Long Beach, Calif., Mr. Dallin was assistant professor of music at Colorado State Agricult- ( ural college, Fort Collins, Colo., in 1946, and conductor of the school orchestra. He elected to return to USC to complete work to- j ward a Ph. D. degree in music , and has been teaching part time since. fellowship while working for the masters degree. Winner of the George Eastman honorary scholarship scholar-ship for scholastic merit, he was a member of the Eastman school senior symphony orchestra, conductor con-ductor of the school orchestra for two concerts and has been student conductor and concert-master concert-master for other orchestral ensembles. I A member of the U. S. army two years service overseas, in air force for 39 months, he saw Europe, Africa and South America. He expects to complete a symphony sym-phony at BYU to be submitted for the thesis requirement. I Mr. Dallin attended school in1 Springville and was graduated from a Long Beach high school; , from Long Beach City college, and from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N. Y., from which he received both 'bachelor and master degrees in 1940 and j 1941, respectively. Both were in , music composition. He received scholarships each year as an undergraduate and a |