The English composer John Rutter has pretty much got a lock on modern
“classical” Christmas music. I am not a fan, but he certainly doesn’t miss me.
Seems like every concert in the world has at least one of his carols, or arrangement
of an existing carol.
Rutter composed “The Shepherd’s Pipe” while a student at Clare
College, Cambridge. He was 18. Maybe that accounts for the lyrics not even
rhyming, I dunno. (Frankly, I got tired of the "On the way to Bethlehem" schtick.) But here are the Batavia Madrigal Singers with Macau
Orchestra performing it. I told you everyone in the world puts on his stuff at
Christmas.
As an aside, when I went searching for this, Google kept trying to
serve up shepherd’s pie. That old algorithm knows what I like.
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