Malcolm MacDonald (composer)

Malcolm MacDonald (1916–1992) was a British composer. He won the Clements Memorial Prize in 1946 for his Trio in One Movement, which was heard again at a Society for the Promotion of New Music concert on 6 December, 1949.[1] His Symphony No 2 won the Royal Philharmonic Society's Open Prize Competition in 1952.[2] His best-known work (and the only one recorded and still performed in recent times) is the Cuban Rondo for clarinet and orchestra, written in 1960.[3]

This article is about the British composer. For other people named Malcolm MacDonald, see Malcolm MacDonald (disambiguation).

He was a regular contributor to The Gramophone magazine, and from the late 1940s a frequent music reviewer and presenter on BBC radio.[4] He has often been confused with the music critic Malcolm MacDonald (1948-2014).[5]

References
  1. Elinor Frances Morrisby, The role of Jan Sedivka in the development of Australian Contemporary String Music, 2009 thesis, University of Tasmania
  2. The Musical Times, Vol. 93, No. 1317, November 1952, p. 516
  3. Recorded on British Clarinet Concertos, ASV CD WHL 2141 (2003)
  4. Alan Frank. 'Radio Music', in The Musical Times, Vol. 94, No. 1330, December, 1953, p. 570
  5. Graham Musto (16 April 2011). "2010 was the Centenary of Robert Still's birth". Robert Still MA, DMus(Oxon)1910-1971. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2011.


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