Which brings us to the Music Now performance in the Rotunda at the State Capitol. This piece is called Environmental Dialogue and it's from a group of pieces called Sonic Mediations. Environmental Dialogue has performers listening to what is going on in the space, or in the environment, and then trying to reinforce what they are hearing, whether vocally or with the instruments. So if you have footsteps going across the Rotunda, then you'll have someone getting inside those footsteps. That's what it is about.
Government funding comes up and goes down, like waves, cycles.
There was the WPA, which served a great purpose and then disappeared. Then there was CETA in the '70s, which also disappeared, when Reagan appeared. Now we slowly have the NEA sinking into the sunset. And one way or another, there will be another wave. Raising it, yes.