Does John Rutter care that people know him mostly through his carols? “‘I used to think that was a problem,’ Mr. Rutter said, surveying from his kitchen window the absurdly perfect village he calls ‘idyllic, if a bit Miss Marple.’ He worried that people wouldn’t take his other music seriously. ‘But I’m not unhappy to be associated with Christmas: better than famine, flood or war,’ he said.”