Does anyone know of anyone researching the benefits of chorister training?
Author Archive: John Rutter
Remembering David Willcocks (1919-2015)
I am immensely the richer for having been David’s student, assistant, and friend.
Christmas Quiz 2019: The Answers
So here you are – the answers to my 12 Christmas Quiz questions – some of them quite tricky!
Christmas Quiz 2019
Welcome to my 2019 Christmas Quiz! There will be a new question every day from 1-12 December.
RIP Stephen Cleobury (1948-2019)
A fond farewell to church music’s only knight, an honour he so richly deserved. Nunc dimittis, Stephen.
Putting music at the centre
The wheel of fashion needs a spin to rediscover music as the newest and brightest idea in education.
What’s in a name?
Thoughts on the anniversary of the death of Italian composer Francesco Durante (1684-1755).
Howells Magnificat – orchestrated by John Rutter
A new orchestral version of Howells’s perhaps most renowned Magnificat.
Haydn: The heavens are telling
Memories of singing Haydn’s The Creation for the first time.
No Composer is an Island
Reflections on the approach of Elgar’s birthday (2 June 1857).