Thank you John Rutter for such a wonderful tribute to the late Sir Srephen Cleobury. He will be missed by many for his great music and his caring for and devotion to Kings College Choir.
Heartbroken here. Over the years I have heard King's College Choir and enjoyed every moment of it. RIP Sir Stephen Cleobury, your style of directing choral music will live on in many hearts. Mr. Rutter thank you for your tribute and music.
Still hard to believe that he's gone. He provided the soundtrack to Christmas for 37 years and so many other achievements beyond that. Huge talent. RIP.
With best wishes to you all. A very sad year. Robert Denton, (Chorister, Leeds Parish Church 1963 - 1971). RIP Stephen. Condolences to the wider Family.
Thank you sir John Rutter for the beautiful tribute to the late sir Steven cleobury.he will be missed. This is such a great loss for the world of music and more specifically to the realm of goal and liturgical music.may his memory be forever blessed and may his soul rejoice in heavens realm
A very noble tribute! I last chatted with Stephen just before one of his farewell concerts in KCC, and by way of explaining a long silence of over two years, mentioned that this was because I had been seriously ill with cancer. He never mentioned his own. The first I heard of it was upon reading one of his obituaries. How modest is that! A very nice and approachable person, it is so sad that he was only able to enjoy barely a couple of months of his well-earned retirement.
Yes, it was so sad. And I had hoped to meet Sir Stephen someday & play FOREST GREEN, DIX, & ABBOTS LEIGH (my 3 favorite hymn tunes) on the organ for him. I regret never having done so.
Thank you for this wonderful tribute. Thank you also so much Sir John Rutter for your wonderful music. It has given me enormous pleasure over the years and you gave my bedridden friend many hours of joy in her last years. Your music is my favourite music of all. My friend requested two of your pieces for her funeral. I give you my heartfelt thank you.
Church music's top job. Stephen gave new meaning to the experience. John Rutter is the consummate figure chosen to present this fine tribute. Wonderful chapel, wonderful organ and the ultimate helmsman - Stephen Cleobury RIP.
Brother Sir Stephen Cleobury is directing music with the children of God in Paradise. We will miss him but see him again. Grace and peace to all in Christ. 🙂
How could we expect less from John Ritter. This is a major loss to the music world, but his preparation of the choir and advancement of cathedral music is wonderful... Rest In Peace Sir Stephen. Look down and smile on your protégés as they take the fruits of your labor into Christmas 2019 and beyond.
What sweeter words for and about Sir Stephen Cleobury. Even as an amateur musician who never personally met Stephen, I was deeply moved and inspired by his work for two decades. His work represented the absolute pinnacle of standards in music making. Sir Stephen's untimely passing leaves a huge void. But his musical legacy is immeasurable and he left us with many wonderful recordings and musical arrangements to remember and honour him by. RIP Sir Stephen Cleobury, you gentle giant of choral and cathedral music. We owe you so much
My sentiments exactly, sk8London. I am an amateur musician (a very enthusiastic amateur organist, since 1988, piano from 1978 to 1988) & I loooove the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. I became an Anglophile in 1994...oh, sorry if my comments are redundant. Anyway, thanks for the beautiful music, Sir Stephen! RIP. From Claire Dixon aka Forest Green Organ Geek
@@leemerritt3537 Oopsie, I forgot. Me and my brain fog. Thanks for the reminder. I am so glad Sir Stephen was knighted. He deserved it, he was such an intelligent, kind person.
Michael and Maureen Warner A beautiful and fitting tribute to such an amazing musician. My wife and I were very sad and shocked to hear the news and send our sincere condolences to Sir Stephen's family.
Thank you John Rutter CBE for your wonderful tribute to the late Sir Stephen Cleobury whose gift and love of music will be very sadly missed. I loved especially the Christmas Carol Service from Kings College. Together with your exquisite compositions Mr. Rutter, the world has been truly blessed, if not indeed spoilt, and choirs and organists alike across the world are blessed to have your composition at our fingertips for Christmas. May God Bless you and your family this Christmastide. Thank you. R.I.P. Sir Stephen Cleobury. - fellow Music Director and Organist.
Thank you for your dedication to all you did at Kings and all you have given to the many other choirs during a dedicated lifetime with music . RIP Stephen, God bless you.
Thankyou John Rutter for your delightful tribute to Sir Stephen Cleobury. I am very grateful for his work at Kings Cambridge. The choir especially at Christmas 🎄 made exceptionally skilled performances for us all to enjoy. 🌝 I’m sure they will continue to inspire us.
His consciousness, or soul, if you will, has expanded into dimensions of comprehension beyond human understanding and will continue in that way for ever - heaven if you like ... busy and creative in eternal satisfaction.
Oops, I forgot to put these multilingual statements in the condolences for Sir Stephen (forgive my brain fog). King's College Choir est 1) maximum chori mundi, 2) mellieur choeur de monde, 3) migliore coro mondiale. No, I am not fluent in foreign languages, but I do love them.
I have been playing the hymn tune Kingsfold a lot lately rather than my favorite (Forest Green) because Forest Green is joyful. Since I am grieving about Stephen I need to play something sad or bittersweet. Kingsfold is a bittersweet tune & fits my current mood. So does the Passacaglia in C minor, but I am still "learning the ropes" on that one, it's difficult. But it surely fits my mood. I hope Stephen would have enjoyed hearing me play Kingsfold & my attempts at the Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor. I'd love to dream about playing them for him & seeing his face light up. I hope he'll pay me an angelic visitation. RVW has, & I hope Stephen will too.
Jan Robitscher Yes, I do know that. However, that is a misconception that we’ll be sitting on clouds. Scripture tells us that we’ll “rule and reign with Christ” and that “it has ot entered into the hearts of humankind what God has planned for us”. Sitting on clouds is so far from the picture Scripture paints for us. Thanks be to God!
@@JR15491 I wouldn't mind sitting on a cloud when I get to heaven, but TBH, as long as there's ORGAN MUSIC it won't matter to me whether we're sitting on clouds or floating in the air or sitting in trees.
Jan Robitscher Thanks. But I still defer to what Scripture says, not nice ideas that have been passed down thru time. I want my thinking to be based on truth not myth. 😊
Here in Australia we have the misfortune of having a national broadcaster, the ABC, who are determinedly anti Christian. Thus for some years now we have been deprived of the Glorious Christmas offering of Lessons and Carols. This criminal organisation has set it self up as an alternative government pronouncing on every subject imaginable which "pertains to life and Godliness" We here in this country are besieged by this state supported political monstrosity.
mr rutter you must believe in Jesus so you can go to heaven when you die it does not matter how famous you are or how many great sacred music you composed if you dont believe in Jesus you will not make it to heaven if you already believe in Jesus thats great just worried about you
+@@jbut1208 You are correct about not judging others, but if a person is on record as having said that he is an agnostic, should one not preach to him? And where in Scripture does it tell us to 'worry' about our own salvation? If it were a lottery or according to works, THEN we might worry. But if we are not saved, we should repent and BE saved; if we ARE saved, what is the value in doubting it? You see, worry is not productive unless it leads to appropriate action, whether repentance or preaching. The case is quite clear 'that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.' See Romans 10:9.
+@@brentallcock8294 Are you sure that you are not being presumptuous yourself? Mr. Rutter is on record as having said that he is an agnostic. Besides you seem to have ignored the last part of the post which are criticizing so boldly, which was written in case he might have changed his mind. Sometimes it pays to check details before answering back in anger. Do you really think that it is wiser to 'wait and see' about salvation, rather than to repent and receive Jesus Christ while there is yet time? What 'other religion' do you propose as a means of getting into heaven? (1st Timothy 2:5) 'For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.' Who else has seen fit to die on behalf of sinners? (Romans 5:8) 'For God demonstrates His own love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' Name one 'great religious leader' of the world, who has RISEN FROM THE DEAD as Jesus did-------------and plenty of evidence is available for your examination, if you care to see it. On behalf of whose interests are you arguing anyway?
Your playlists suggest you know the answer to that. But in the remote chance you do not, subscribe to or Google King's College Choir, Cambridge channel and enjoy all of his Christian music including Handel's Messiah. Shalom
