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Spring Prelims will be held in Nashua, NH on April 27-29,2001. The Granite & Pine (hosts) and The Patriot Divisions will also be held that weekend.

The Division Quartets will be combined with the Prelims competitors on Friday night beginning at 7:15PM.

The Division Choruses will be held on Saturday beginning at noon with The Granite & Pine Division Choruses singing first, an intermission followed by the Patriot Division Choruses. Evaluations will be held immediately after the chorus contests are complete. The Contest Administrator Don Crowl will determine where they will be held.

Jerry Silverberg has arranged rooms at $69.00 US at the Holiday Inn. See him for details.

The contest site is Hollis Brookline HS in Hollis, NH. To get there, head North or South on Rt 3 - take Exit 6 (Rt130 Broad St./Hollis). At the top of the ramp, take a right onto Rt 130 West toward Hollis for approx. 9.2-km. Turn left at the intersection of Rt 122. Proceed South on Rt 122 for 0.8-km to Cavalier Ct. and Hollis Brookline HS. Follow Cavalier Ct. to the rear of HS to the parking lot. The entrance to auditorium is at the rear of the High School.

By Marla Jo Fisher Knight Ridder , 3/31/2001

IRVINE, Calif. - Singing in a choir might just make you healthier, according to a newly publicized study by the University of California, Irvine. Researchers found increased levels of disease-fighting proteins in the mouths of choir members after they sang Beethoven's choral masterwork, ''Missa Solemnis.''

According to the study, a protein used by the immune system to fight disease called Immunoglobulin A increased 150 percent during rehearsals and 240 percent during performance. The boost seemed directly related to the singers' states of mind, which many participants described as happy or euphoric.

''The more passionate you feel while singing, the greater the effect,'' said education professor Robert Beck, who authored the study with Thomas Cesario, dean of the university's College of Medicine. The study was published this school year in the scientific journal Music Perception.

The difference in the increased levels between a performance and rehearsal, scientists theorized, might be because the singers had achieved mastery of the complicated piece after often-stressful rehearsals and also were enjoying the thrill of the performance itself.

That makes perfect sense to baritone Steve Morris, a member of the Santa Ana, Calif.-based Pacific Chorale who participated in the study and has a deeply emotional reaction to performing.

''Afterward, I'm floating,'' said Morris, 61, a member of choir with his wife, Ann, since 1969. ''I feel terrific. There have been many times going into a concert when I'm fighting a cold or have a sore throat, but I managed to show up and do the performance, and I'm higher than a kite when it's over.''

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