After the war (from 1948) he moved to South Africa as a senior lecturer in music at Cape Town University.
[1] MacDonald 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.
[3] His best-known work (and the only one recorded and still performed in recent times) is the short light music piece Cuban Rondo for clarinet and orchestra, written in 1960.
[4] Other works included a Sinfonietta (1951), and multiple concertos, for harpsichord, violin, viola, clarinet, bassoon and horn.
[5] MacDonald was a regular contributor to The Gramophone magazine, and from the late 1940s a frequent music reviewer and presenter on BBC radio.