Sir john rutter

John Rutter at 80 Donald Macleod visits John Rutter at home in this celebratory series of Composer of the Week, looking back at the highs and lows of his extraordinary career. We hear about the full b

I would say what you’re feeling is not in your imagination. You like girls, but you like boys too, and that’s OK. All your feelings are valid. That confusion you’re feeling, it’s fine. I would ask if

My career began in Torquay, in the corner of a hotel dining room. I was a little girl, barely tall enough to reach the keys, but there was a battered old piano sitting there, and I was obsessed. Every

On the morning of 15 November 2007, Morten Lauridsen stepped onto a podium in the East Room of the White House to receive the National Medal of Arts from president George W Bush. He was 64 at the time

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Composer André Rieu, 76, reflects on his success and reveals the secret to 50 years of wedded bliss