A Garritan Community Christmas Volume 7

This Christmas Album is a collaborative effort of the GPO Community and was made in the spirit of giving for the holidays.

Welcome to the 2010 Annual Garritan Community Christmas Album, a unique musical project. Feel free to listen to the 17 holiday pieces on the Garritan Community Christmas Player, download the music, and print out the album art.

For a seventh holiday season, a community of musicians from all over the world met on the Garritan community forum and agreed to submit their own recordings of holiday music, to be freely distributed. Each of these orchestral recordings were created by a single person working on their own desktop or laptop computer. What they have in common is the use of Garritan libraries representing software musical instruments based on samples of real instruments. The work done in the recordings on this album are a testament not only to the sophistication of music technology, but also to the skill of the composers, arrangers and programmers who have used these tools so remarkably well.  Finally, let's not forget the powerful force of the sentiments of the season and the inspiration behind the music. Each year we come back to these melodies and forms because they inspire us like no other.

Many thanks to everyone who submitted a song for the Christmas album. A big thanks as well to Dan Kury who organized this effort and mastered the songs for the album. And many thanks to James Mireau for the cover art.

Let this superb holiday music warm your heart this season.