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Malcolm MacDonald (1916–1992) was a British composer, academic and critic. He was educated at Harrow, and then at Trinity College Cambridge. During the war he was a Bandmaster, RAF Coastal Command (1942-44), and then with the Flying Training Command (1944-45). After the war (from 1948) he moved to South Africa as a senior lecturer in music at Cape Town University. Returning to the UK he was a professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Royal Academy of Music from 1954 (where Judith Bingham was one of his students from 1970 to 1973 and Craig Armstrong from 1977 until 1981), a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Dancing (1962-67), and an examiner with the Associated Board from 1965. He was an expert on wind instruments and a jazz enthusiast.
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