{"id":27,"date":"2003-11-28T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T14:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2003\/11\/28\/john-rutter\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T12:41:02","slug":"john-rutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2003\/11\/28\/john-rutter\/","title":{"rendered":"John Rutter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chantry Singers are doing 3 pieces by John Rutter in our concert. As someone once said to me ‘We don’t have Christmas-tide any more – it’s Rutter-tide’. I’m not a huge fan (there’s only so much ‘oo’ and ‘ah’ ing accompaniment I can take), but there’s no denying he can write catchy tunes. I’ve heard a rumour that he has written jingles for BBC Radio 2 and when I first went to Japan I wondered whether he also wrote the snatches of melody which are played on bullet trains as they approach stations. There was one on the shinkansen<\/i> between Sendai and Tokyo which sounded very like the introduction to the Sans Day Carol! No, it’s more likely Japanese composers who’ve been to carol concerts full of arrangements from ‘Carols for Choirs’. [2019 update: they still do this!<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\nNow how many people buy recordings by the Cambridge Singers thinking that the choir is something to do with Cambridge? Many of the singers have studied at Cambridge, but that’s about as far as it goes. I lived in Cambridge for six years and they never performed there; in fact I don’t know that they give concerts anywhere or do anything apart from meet in London to make recordings.<\/p>\n

\nA fine cartoon in the latest Private Eye<\/i>: two choirboys in the stalls, one saying to the other ‘I can’t believe it’s not Rutter…!’. I don’t expect most of the readership will get the joke though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chantry Singers are doing 3 pieces by John Rutter in our concert. As someone once said to me ‘We don’t have Christmas-tide any more – it’s Rutter-tide’. I’m not a huge fan (there’s only so much ‘oo’ and ‘ah’ ing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[735,469,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}