John Milford Rutter CBE (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music.

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Mass of the Children (2003)

1. Kyrie (0:00)
2. Gloria (6:40)
3. Sanctus and Benedictus (13:57)
4. Agnus Dei (20:44)
5. Finale (Dona nobis pacem) (26:43)

Angharad Gruffydd-Jones, soprano & Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone.
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Farnham Youth Choir &
Clare Chamber Ensemble conducted by Timothy Brown
James McVinnie, organ

Mass of the Children is a major work of English composer John Rutter and a non-liturgical Missa brevis, with the traditional Latin and Greek Mass text interwoven with several English poems. It was written after the sudden death of his son Christopher while a student at Clare College, Cambridge, where Rutter himself had studied.
The Finale uses additional text from the Agnus Dei which was not used in the preceding movement, as well as two prayer adaptations by Rutter and a poem by Bishop Thomas Ken (An Evening Hymn). Another of Ken's poems was incorporated into the Kyrie (A Morning Hymn), and a poem by William Blake (The Lamb, from Songs of Innocence and of Experience) is interwoven with the Agnus Dei.

The Mass for the Children was first performed on February 13, 2003, at New York's Carnegie Hall.