[Magdalen] Rutter's Requiem

[Roger Stokes]

On 20/08/2016 02:56, Jim Handsfield wrote:
> My whole internet, tv, VoIP phone went out earlier today (tech coming in the morning) so I'm using my cellular connection.
>
> I'm listening to Requiem by John Rutter which I love and am moved by every time I hear it.  This performance is by the Cambridge Singers with Rutter conducting.  It's about the only piece he has written that wasn't commissioned - he wrote it as a response to his son's murder and I can sense how personal it is.

I thought his son died when hit by a car while crossing the road in 
Cambridge. I have used that particular crossing point innumerable times 
(as John will have done himself) and should be doing so again in 5 
weeks.  There are lights there now so it's safer.

Roger