John Rutter explains, “I have always enjoyed carols ever since I - TopicsExpress



          

John Rutter explains, “I have always enjoyed carols ever since I first sang them as a member of my school choir, and it was not long before I began to write carols of my own - in fact my first two published compositions, written in my teens, were the Nativity carol (1963) and the Shepherd’s pipe carol (1965). This was more subversive than it sounds: at the time, the only officially approved style of composition for a classically-trained music student was post-Webernian serialism, which never appealed to me much, and writing Christmas carols was an undercover way of slipping a tune or two into circulation at a time of year when music critics are generally on vacation.”
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:00:00 +0000

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