John Milford Rutter CBE (born September 24, 1945(1945-09-24)) is an English composer, choral conductor, editor, arranger and record producer. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A conductor conducting at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... Editing may also refer to audio editing or film editing. ... In popular music an arrangement is a setting of a piece of music, which may have been composed by the arranger or by someone else. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...

Born in London, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He then read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir and then director of music from 1975 to 1979. In 1974, Rutter visited the United States at the invitation of choral musician Melvin (Mel) Olson and conducted the premiere of his cantata "Gloria" in Omaha, Nebraska, in the Witherspoon Hall of Joslyn Art Museum. The composition, commissioned by Olson's Voices of Mel Olson chorale, has become a much-performed favorite over the years. (In the same concert, the Young People's Choir of the Midlands performed Rutter's "Eight Childhood Lyrics" in its US premiere performance.) In 1981 he founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label Collegium Records. He still lives near Cambridge, but frequently conducts other choirs and orchestras around the world. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Highgate School is a British Independent School in London, England. ... John Tavener should not be confused with the sixteenth-century composer John Taverner. ... College name Clare College Named after Elizabeth de Clare Established 1326 Previously named University Hall (1326-1338) Clare Hall (1338-1856) Location Trinity Lane Admittance Men and women Master Prof. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Omaha is the name of some places in the United States: *Omaha, Nebraska (the most familiar one) Omaha, Georgia Omaha, Illinois Omaha, Texas It is also the name of a Native American tribe, after which the city in Nebraska is named; see Omaha (tribe). ... Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Largest metro area Omaha Area  Ranked 16th  - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 0. ... The museums tiled Fountain Court The museums main atrium (seen here from the south) contains a café and gift shop. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Cambridge Singers is an English mixed voice chamber/choral group formed in 1981 by their director John Rutter with the express purpose of making recordings under the purposely set up label Collegium The main body of the group was first of all made up by previous Clare College singers where... Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ...

In 1980 he was made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music. Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. ... The Archbishop of Canterbury is the spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England, recognized by convention as the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

He also works as an arranger and editor, most notably (in his youth) of the extraordinarily successful Carols for Choirs anthology series in collaboration with Sir David Willcocks. Carols for Choirs, published by Oxford University Press, edited by Sir David Willcocks with Reginald Jacques and John Rutter, is the most widely-used source of carols (predominantly Christmas, though some Easter) in the British Anglican tradition, and among British choral societies. ... Sir David Willcocks (b. ...

Compositions

Rutter's compositions are chiefly choral, and include Christmas carols, anthems and extended works such as a Gloria and a Requiem. Rutter's world premiere of his Requiem Mass, as well as his authoritative version of Faure's, was with the Fox Valley Festival Chorus, in Illinois, during his tenure with Cambridge. In 2002 his setting of Psalm 150, commissioned for the Queen's Golden Jubilee, was performed at the Thanksgiving service in St Paul's Cathedral, London. He has also written an opera for young people called Bang! This page is about carols in general; for the short story by Charles Dickens, see A Christmas Carol. ... An anthem is a composition to an English religious text sung in the context of an Anglican service. ... Gloria in Excelsis Deo (Latin for Glory to God in the highest) is the title and beginning of the Great Doxology used in the Roman Catholic Mass, Divine Service of the Lutheran Church and in the services of many other [1] Christian churches. ... The Requiem by John Rutter is a musical setting of an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, completed in 1985. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Psalms (Tehilim תהילים, in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. ... A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary of a monarchs reign. ... The First Thanksgiving, painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930). ... This article is about the cathedral church of the diocese of London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Bang! is an opera for young people by John Rutter to an English libretto by D. Grant. ...

He is published principally by Oxford University Press, and by his own company Collegium. Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ...

Influences

Rutter's music is eclectic, showing the influences of the French and English choral traditions of the early 20th century, as well as of light music and American classic songwriting. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Light Music is a generic term applied to a mainly British musical style of light orchestral music, which began post-World War One and had its heyday during the mid-20th Century, although arguably lasts to the present day. ... Songwriter Harold Arlen (right) with singer Bing Crosby (left) and Decca Records owner Jack Kapp (center) Great American Songbook is an informal term referring to the interrelated music of Broadway musical theater, the Hollywood musical, and Tin Pan Alley, in a period that begins roughly in the 1920s and tapers...

Despite composing and conducting much religious music, Rutter told the US television program 60 Minutes in 2003 that he was not particularly a religious man, but he is inspired by the spirituality of sacred verses and prayers.[1] The 60 Minutes program, which aired a week before Christmas 2003, focused on Rutter's popularity with choral groups in the United States, Britain and other parts of the world, and on his composition, Mass of the Children, composed after the untimely death of his son Christopher while a student. This article is about the CBS news magazine. ... Mass of the Children is a major work of English composer John Rutter. ...

Reputation

Rutter's music is very popular, particularly in the USA (NBC's Today Show called him "the world's greatest living composer and conductor of choral music"); though in the UK it receives a more mixed reception. Some from the Anglican choral tradition do not regard him as a sufficiently 'serious' composer. There is still great appreciation for his work in many parts of the UK, however, as illustrated by the following quotation from a review in the London 'Evening Standard' (25/09/2005): 'For the infectiousness of his melodic invention and consummate craftsmanship, Rutter has few peers'. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Today, commonly referred to as The Today Show to avoid ambiguity, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on the NBC television network. ... Anglican church music is music that is performed in Anglican church services. ...

In terms of performances he is probably the most successful choral composer of his generation. For example, his Shepherd's Pipe Carol, written while he was still at school, is reputed to have sold well over one million copies in sheet music alone. Sheet music is written representation of music. ...

List of compositions and arrangements

Carols

• "Angels' Carol"
• "Candlelight Carol"
• "Carol of the Children"
• "Christmas Lullaby"
• "Donkey Carol"
• "Jesus Child"
• "Love Came Down at Christmas"
• "Mary's Lullaby"
• "Nativity Carol"
• "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose"
• "Shepherd's Pipe Carol"
• "Star Carol"
• "There is a Flower"
• "The Very Best Time of Year"
• "What Sweeter Music"
• "Wild Wood Carol"

Choral Works

• "A Gaelic Blessing" for SATB and organ or guitar. Commissioned by the choir of 1st United Methodist Church in honor of music director Mel Olson, Omaha, Nebraska USA (1978)
• "Carols for Choirs 2" ed. Willcocks and Rutter
• "Carols for Choirs 3" ed. Willcocks and Rutter
• "Carols for Choirs 4" ed. Willcocks and Rutter
• "Dancing Day" for SSA with harp or piano
• "Eight Childhood Lyrics"
• "Eight Christmas Carols, Set 1" for mixed voices and piano
• "Eight Christmas Carols, Set 2" for mixed voices and piano
• "100 Carols for Choirs" ed. Willcocks and Rutter
• "Twelve Christmas Carols, Set 1" for mixed voices and small orchestra or piano
• "Twelve Christmas Carols, Set 2" for mixed voices and small orchestra or piano
• "Child in a manger" from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and keyboard or orchestra
• "Christmas Night" for SATB and keyboard or strings
• "Cradle Song" from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB unaccompanied
• "Donkey Carol" for SATB and piano or orchestra
• "Flemish Carol" from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or orchestra
• "For the Beauty of the Earth" for TTBB and piano
• "Here we come a-wassailing" from Twelve Christmas Carols, Set 1
• "The holly and the ivy" for SATB and piano or orchestra
• "I saw three ships" from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or orchestra
• "Jesus Child" for SATB and piano or orchestra
• "Jesus Child" for unison and piano
• "Joy to the world!" for SATB and keyboard or orchestra (2 trumpets, timpani and strings)
• "King Jesus hath a garden" from Carols for Choirs 3 for SATB and piano or flute, harp and strings
• "Love came down at Christmas" for SATB and keyboard or strings
• "Mary's Lullaby" for SATB and piano or orchestra
• "Nativity Carol" for SATB and keyboard or strings
• "O come, O come, Immanuel" from Twelve Christmas Carols, Set 1 for SATB and keyboard or orchestra.
• "Quem pastores laudavere" for SATB unaccompanied
• "Quittez, pasteurs" for SATB unaccompanied
• "Shepherd's Pipe Carol" for SATB and piano or orchestra or for SSAA and piano or orchestra
• "Sing we to this merry company" for SATB and orchestra or organ
• "Star Carol" for SATB and piano or orchestra or brass with optional children's voices or for unison and piano
• "There is a flower" for SATB unaccompanied
• "Three Carols" from Carols for Choirs 4 for SS and SSA unaccompanied
• "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day" from the cycle of carols, Dancing Day for SSA and harp or piano
• "The twelve days of Christmas from Carols for Choirs 2 for SATB and piano or orchestra
• "Wexford Carol" for SATB unaccompanied
• "What sweeter music" for SATB and organ or strings

Other

• All Creatures of our God and King
• All Things Bright and Beautiful
• As the bridegroom to his chosen
• Be Thou my vision
• Behold, the Tabernacle of God
• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
• Children's chorus, opt.
• A Choral Amen
• A Choral Fanfare
• Christ the Lord is risen again
• A Clare Benediction
• Distant Land
• The Falcon
• Fancies (part of "Eight Childhood Lyrics")
• Feel the Spirit
• Gloria
• Go forth into the world in peace
• God be in my head
• Gregorian Chant
• Greensleeves
• How Firm A Foundation
• Heavenly Aeroplane
• Hymn to the Creator of Light
• I believe in springtime
• I will lift up mine eyes
• I will sing with the spirit
• I will worship the Lord
• I Wonder as I Wander
• Let us go in peace
• Look at the World
• The Lord bless you and keep you
• The Lord is my light and my salvation
• The Lord is my Shepherd: SATB & organ
• Loving shepherd of thy sheep
• Magnificat
• Mass of the Children
• Now thank we all our God
• O be joyful in the Lord
• O clap your hands
• Open Thou Mine Eyes
• The Peace of God
• Pie Jesu
• Praise the Lord, O my soul
• Praise ye the Lord
• A Prayer of Saint Patrick
• Te Deum
• Thanksgiving Prayer
• The Peace of God
• Thy Perfect love
• Toccata in 7
• Requiem
• When Icicles Hang
• When the saints go marching in
• Wings of the Morning

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External links

• Rutter at the Oxford University Press website
• Collegium Records including a
• biography
• UGA Men's Glee Club perform John Rutter's "For the Beauty of the Earth"
• Downing Street petition