{"id":966,"date":"2016-02-17T19:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/furman-alum-leads-childrens-chorus-on-snl\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:54:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:54:07","slug":"furman-alum-leads-childrens-chorus-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alum-leads-childrens-chorus-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum leads chorus on SNL, Today Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/snl-childrens-chorus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5094 lazyload\" title=\"snl-childrens-chorus\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/snl-childrens-chorus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"269\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 366px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 366\/269;\" \/><\/a>The New York City Children\u2019s Chorus, conducted by Furman alum Mary Huff, performed on NBC\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d Dec. 15.\u00a0 The group quietly opened the show with a performance of \u201cSilent Night\u201d and then sang with musical guest Paul McCartney later in the program.\u00a0 The chorus also performed \u201cSilent Night\u201d on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday Show\u201d the following Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Huff, who graduated from Furman in 1999 with a degree in music, is artistic director of the New York City Children\u2019s Chorus. She has also been Director of Children\u2019s Choirs and High School Choir at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York City, where she prepared choirs for performances in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral to the studios of Nickelodeon.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her work with the New York City Children&#8217;s Chorus, Huff is also the Associate Director of Music at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. After graduating from Furman, she continued her musical studies on a full scholarship at Yale University where she earned a Master of Music degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/12\/17\/2559154\/choir-led-by-furman-grad-gives.html#.UM88QeQ717c\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York City Children\u2019s Chorus, conducted by Furman alum Mary Huff, performed on NBC\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d Dec. 15.\u00a0 The group quietly opened the show with a performance of \u201cSilent Night\u201d and then sang with musical guest Paul McCartney later in the program.\u00a0 The chorus also performed \u201cSilent Night\u201d on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday Show\u201d the following Monday.\u00a0Huff graduated from Furman in 1999 with a degree in music, and earned a Master of Music degree at Yale University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}