PROVIDING MUSICAL BACKGROUND

This program is most effective if all the narrations, dialogues, readings, and drama are given with background music. We used a combination of two types of musical background: (1) various record selections, which we recorded on a high-quality tape, and (2) live organ music.

Taped Background
In this area of the production, creativity can be unlimited. Simple music from records may be taped, or more complicated music that requires timing of appropriate words.

For example, the background music we used for the trials was complicated, but more effective, because the music changed from soft, mysterious, shadowy sounds to a loud, rolling music with accented bursts. The sentences of the narration were given with great pauses between. Following the choir’s last "Blas…