King’s honours for Rutter and Wright
NewsIn today’s birthday honours, King Charles has bestowed well-deserved knighthoods on the church composer John Rutter and the outgoing BrittenPears chief Roger Wright, a former head of the BBC Proms and Radio 3.
The same honour is granted to the farmer Michael Eavis, who created the Glastonbury rock festival on his land, and to the investor Richard Greenhalgh, chair of trustees of British Youth Opera.
Sir John is an accomplished composer, but when conducting the orchestra is a boat without a Rutter.
Excellent news indeed although this honour for Sir John is about twenty years late! It has long been a mystery for many of us wondering why it has taken so long for his work as a composer and inspiring choral conductor to be recognized!
A Government who has been so self obsessed with their own achievements (not!) and self interest.. and they are all ignorant philistines over the arts when football seems to dominate their honours lists
For once, the honours committee have got it right.
Both distinguished men justly deserve these quaint antique honours as they are both popular, long deserving and modest as they get on with their jobs without fuss or accolades.
Well deserved and long overdue.