In need of new holiday music this week? Enjoy my all-original orchestral Christmas medley, "Christmas Wayfarer"!
This grand work includes unique arrangements of “I Saw Three Ships," "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Coventry Carol," "O Holy Night," and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing."
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Sarah Wallin Huff holds an MA in Music Composition from Claremont Graduate University. As a violinist, violist, and 6-string electric violinist, she has extensive experience performing all styles in a variety of groups, recording projects, and solo and ensemble concerts across the USA and eleven European countries. She has enjoyed her work as a composer for concert halls and soundtrack work since 1993. While her sonic output crosses a variety of moods and styles, a common thread linking them all is what she calls “stream-of-consciousness composition,” in which every piece is built upon an enigmatic, underlying framework, from which the work fluidly evolves.
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