http://nhpr.org en http://nhpr.org/post/wanna-sing-messiah <div class="transcript"><p>It&#39;s hard to imagine Christmas without a choir singing Handel&#39;s Messiah.</p><p>In recent years a new tradition has developed: the &#39;Messiah-sing.&#39;</p><p>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.</p><p>New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent Doug MacPherson attended one-such Messiah-sing at the Music Hall in Portsmouth.</p><p>He filed this audio postcard.</p></div> Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:13:05 +0000 Doug MacPherson 6159 at http://nhpr.org Wanna Sing "The Messiah"?