Reception
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"). In the UK it receives a more mixed reception: while one conservative British composer, David Arditti, does not regard him as a sufficiently "serious" composer, others hold him in high regard, 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."
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