There is an composer of church music, including some Christmas carols and songs, called John Rutter - and it is mandatory that at least one of his songs must be performed in every Christmas concert throughout England - as well as in every evensong in every cathedral every week.
Rutter was very prolific, and his work is of a consistent standard - and that standard is meh.
His music is not terrible, but it is never much good.
Rutter seems to have been around forever, or maybe that is just what his music makes me feel. Yet apparently the old cove is still with us, and only eighty years old!
How he achieved such a vice-like grip on Anglican choral music, I'm not sure; but my suspicion is that he has incriminating photographs of every Vicar in the Church of England.
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