Previous posts for September 24th are here: John Rutter; Václav Nelhýbel (2019), John Rutter; Anthony Newley (2020), John Rutter (2021), and Jean-Louis Lully (2022)
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John Rutter (b. 24 September 1945) is a well-known and prolific choral conductor, composer, and arranger, especially of Christmas carols.
A House Divided
One British composer, David Arditti, did not regard Rutter as a sufficiently "serious" composer, saying that Rutter is "hard to take seriously,... and which tends towards mawkish sentimentality in his sugarily-harmonised and orchestrated melodies." – Wikipedia
David Willcocks considered Rutter "the most gifted composer of his generation." - Wikipedia
At Christmas you’ll likely perform
John Rutter, a seasonal norm,
And this I’ll say for him
Adore or abhor him,
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His music situated somewhere after Vaughan Williams and Frank Bridge in the tradition that includes the tuneful Britten and Michael Tippett.
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