Malcolm Dalglish (born August 14, 1952) is an
American
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hammered dulcimer
The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more trad ...
player and builder, composer, and choral director.
A virtuoso performer on the hammer dulcimer, he is a former member of the folk/Celtic trio
Metamora and has performed frequently with the percussionist
Glen Velez
Glen Velez (born 1949) is a four-time Grammy winning American percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world. He is largely responsible for the increasing popularity of frame drums in the United States an ...
. In addition to the dulcimer, Dalglish also plays the
spoon
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s and
bones
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(both traditional American percussion instruments). Beginning in the mid-1970s he honed his playing at Hap's Irish Pub in Cincinnati in a duo with flutist and concertina player Grey Larsen. He also composes prolifically for choir, and many of his compositions are for choir with dulcimer accompaniment. He has received more than 50 commissions to compose for choirs around the world. He played the hammered dulcimer in the score for the 1981 film ''
Tuck Everlasting
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''. Several of his songs with the Ooolite choral group come from the poetic work of
Wendell Berry
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.
Dalglish attended
Oberlin College
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and the
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
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. He lives in
Bloomington,
Indiana
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, where his publishing company, Ooolitic Music, is based.
Discography
As leader
* 1977 ''Banish Misfortune'' (with Grey Larsen) (
June Appal)
* 1978 ''First of Autumn'' (with Grey Larsen) (June Appal)
* 1982 ''Thunderhead'' (with Grey Larsen) (
Flying Fish
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)
* 1986 ''Jogging the Memory'' (
Windham Hill
Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music. It was founded by guitarist William Ackerman and Anne Robinson (née McGilvray) in 1976 and was popular in the 1980s and 1990s.
The label was ...
)
* 1991 ''Hymnody of Earth'' (Music Masters)
* 1997 ''Pleasure'' (Ooolitic)
* 2003 ''Carpe Diem! A Ceremony of Song''
ive
With Metamora
* 1984 ''Root Crops and Ground Cover'' (Tarquel)
* 1985 ''Metamora'' (Pamlico)
* 1987 ''The Great Road'' (Pamlico)
* 1990 ''Morning Walk'' (Windham Hill)
With Ooodoo
* 2007 ''Into the Sky'' (Ooolitic)
See also
*
List of ambient music artists
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External links
The Malcolm Dalglish and Ooolitic Music WebsiteMalcolm Dalglish interviewby N. Scott Robinson
*
Allmusic entry for Malcolm Dalglish
1952 births
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
American male classical composers
American classical composers
Hammered dulcimer players
Musicians from Bloomington, Indiana
Living people
21st-century American composers
Windham Hill Records artists
University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music alumni
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
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