The territory’s leaders have slapped more cash bandages on the gaping wound that is the V.I. Water and Power Authority’s finances, and senators said at an emergency session Thursday that the energy crisis is far from over.

ST. THOMAS — A line of horn players read the sheet music before them. Backup singers work out chorus lines with calypsonians. And, under dim lights at Pilgrim’s Terrace one evening, Malvern Gumbs, this year’s Village honoree and Spectrum bandleader, guides the musicians on stage through seve…