Later in our video library. Well leave now as the u. S. House is gaveling in for legislative work, taking up five bills including measures on hezbollah sanctions. Later today, theyll also begin debate on the 2018 budget resolution, including that path forward on tax reform. Theyll take up the rules for debate for tomorrows bill. Live house coverage on cspan. Senator capito [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] girata, st. Michael and all Angels Episcopal Church, dallas, texas. Reverend girata let us pray, gracious god, we thank you for the gift of this life and ask your blessing upon the world you have made, have compassion on those who suffer any grief or trouble. Give to the people of our count try a zeal for justice and we may use our liberty in accordance with your gracious will. Guide who govern and hold authority in this nati
Rachel Smith
A colleague and friend of mine told me recently that he’d been listening to an old LP recording of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra doing a live concert for the Edinburgh Festival. ‘Yes, the music and the performance were beautiful’, he said, ‘but what really got me was the sound of the audience. Like a living, breathing animal - I was moved to tears.’
Today I heard a poet and performer speaking on the radio about how he misses ‘surfing the energy of the people in the room’. These thoughts verbalise what I’ve been missing for so long now. One can hear, see and sometimes even smell a live audience, but the energy - the most palpable thing of all - is the invisible and reactive thread that spurs us on to tell the story on stage. A live concert is a ‘trialogue’ between composer, performer and audience; often the balance can be skewed towards one of these, but if we’re missing one altogether, it loses a dimension. After a forced break of 6 months from o