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Malcolm Dalglish (born August 14, 1952) is an
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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
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. In addition to the dulcimer, Dalglish also plays the
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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 ''
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''. Several of his songs with the Ooolite choral group come from the poetic work of
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. Dalglish attended
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and the
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. He lives in Bloomington,
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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) (
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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

*
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External links


The Malcolm Dalglish and Ooolitic Music Website

Malcolm Dalglish interview
by 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 {{US-composer-20thC-stub