Rutter? What was he like? Devilishly happy and ruthlessly positive, a coiled spring hunched over his score in his lap, then UP would come his wickedly-grinning head as he'd gesture out at us while we sang, wringing the best notes out of us..... I had NO IDEA who he was at the time.... he was just very simply nice and got a GREAT singing out of us. Most in attendance were choir directors (not me!). He was previewing new music, a pack of sheet music samples for each..... naive me, it was a sales thing! Who cares! It was glorious.