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Wanna Sing "The Messiah"?

By Doug MacPherson on Friday, December 8, 2006.

It’s hard to imagine Christmas without a choir singing Handel’s Messiah.

In recent years a new tradition has developed: the “Messiah-sing.”

It operates like a pick-up basketball game. Anyone who wants to sing the Messiah shows up at a concert hall with music in-hand. Tenors sit with tenors and sopranos with sopranos. And then -- without rehearsal -- the concert begins.

New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent Doug MacPherson attended one-such Messiah-sing at the Music Hall in Portsmouth.

He filed this audio postcard.

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A Letter from Iraq: Staff Sgt. Chuck Rice

By Mark Bevis on Friday, December 8, 2006.

The news about Iraq this week has been mostly about the US role in the Middle East.

The Congressionally appointed Iraq Study Group released its report Wednesday calling the Bush Administration's policy a failure.

But New Hampshire National Guard Sergeant Chuck Rice says he's not bothering too much with the stateside debate.

The Staff Sergeant tells NHPR's Mark Bevis that the troops of the 36-43rd are paying much more attention to doing their jobs....and getting home.

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New Hampshire Gay Men's Chorus Offers Holiday Program

By Lisa Peakes on Friday, December 8, 2006.

Robert Thompson of the New Hampshire Gay Men's Chorus talks about the group's holiday program and the group's history.

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