Wins Music Prize

Roland J. Leich '35, instructor in Music at Dartmouth, has been awarded the 1937 Joseph H. Beams Prize of $1300 for his "String Quartet in D Flat Major," it was announced at Columbia University late in April. The prize, established in 1938, is conferred annually "to encourage young American composers of outstanding talent and promise" between the ages of 18 and 25-

Mr. Leich received the Beams second prize of $900 for "Songs to Five Poems by Housman" and "Variations for String Quartet" in 1933. In the same year he also won the Lauber Prize for composition. Born in Evansville, Ind., he began composing at the age of ten. He attended Gunn School of Music in Chicago in 1928 and Dartmouth in 1928-29. He left college to obtain the Bachelor of Music degree from Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1933, and returned to Dartmouth to get his A.B. degree in 1935. He joined the music faculty in 1934, first as assistant and in 1935 as instructor.