{"id":7920,"date":"2018-12-19T20:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/19\/mary-huff\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:17:57","slug":"mary-huff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/mary-huff\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Children\u2019s Chorus sings &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; live on &#8220;TODAY&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Mary Wannamker Huff graduated Furman University in 1999, she continued her musical studies\u00a0on a full scholarship at Yale University where she earned a Master of Music degree in 2001. She began specializing in training children for choirs and served eight years as director of children&#8217;s choirs at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City. In 2012, Huff founded the\u00a0New York City Children\u2019s Chorus at\u00a0Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.\u00a0Clad in red robes and white scarves, the chorus braved the cold and sang a holiday favorite on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/see-nyc-children-s-chorus-sings-jingle-bells-live-on-today-1401982531844?fbclid=IwAR3-Tx2DMINA0GiOtoUh4SBhzQH-c_G0oX1d26TUPlqnIza-vfSBiTD_41E\">TODAY<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Mary Wannamker Huff graduated Furman University in 1999, she continued her musical studies\u00a0on a full scholarship at Yale University where she earned a Master of Music degree in 2001. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}