Playing Xmas music remotely through Mac Mini & TV (iTunes? Airplay?)

Hi --
In anticipation of the holiday season I would like to configure our house to play music throughout various rooms from a central iTunes source. We have a Mac Air with speakers in the kitchen, and an Airport Express in the dining room with speakers attached that also plays the same music from the Mac Air in the kitchen. We have a Mac Mini in the living room hooked up to a Samsung HDTV, and I would like to similarly play the music from the Air on that Mac Mini + TV combination, but can't figure out whether that is possible.
The iTunes on the Mac Mini recognizes the iTunes instance running on the Mac Air, but as far as I can tell that only lets me access the music library on the Mac Air, i.e. it would require separately triggering the iTunes playlist from the living room, rather than centrally from a single iTunes instance. The Mac Mini is connected through Cat5e to our network, and we don't have an Airport Express nearby, else I would pipe the music through the AE.
I would prefer that the music source be iTunes on a Mac Air in the kitchen, but could probably make a centralized iOS app work instead if needed. Either way, is it possible to use this Mini + TV set up as a music receiver, playing music through the TV speakers? E.g. make a Mini behave like a set of remote speakers? Or an Airplay client?
Thanks in advance,
Ramon
P.S. Please let me know if this post is better suited to another forum -- given the mix of technologies at work I wasn't sure where to start...

iTunes itself does not act as an AirPlay receiver only a transmitter. There is at least one hack to make a Mac act like an AirPort Express i.e. an AirPlay receiver and this is called ShairPort (or MacShairPort for the Mac version).
The official and easy solution would be to get another Apple AirPort Express or an Apple TV2 and set it up as a second destination. Or if your wanting to go all the way, get several Sonos ZonePlayers as that is the Rolls Royce solution for doing a multiroom audio setup.

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