Is Now Not Enough - Dosia McKay

Is Now Not Enough?

for String Quartet

A transcription for string orchestra is also available

Composed: 2013
Total duration: 8’30”
Published by Gavia Music (ASCAP)

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Is Now Not Enough? explores the restlessness and insatiability of a creative spirit. The same invisible force that propels migrating birds and fish, seems to stir the human imagination in search of the ideal and the transcendent, but can it ever be truly found? The music echoes the themes I have explored earlier in my poem entitled Unfurling (see below).

This piece is available on the following album:

Unfurling

Be still my soul
What is your unfurling?
Your trembling
Your flutter?
What is your ache?
A void that’s ever empty
What is your shape
That I may fill it?
Chords unstrummed?
Songs unsung?
Words unspoken?
Colors unseen?

A flock of geese
Captured in perpetual takeoff
You have startled
The stillness of the pond
Marred it with ripples
Your wings
Water shedding
Gasping for air
Hungrily
Ecstatically
Forcefully

What is your haste?
Is now not enough?
Is here not plenty?

Run, soul, run
For stillness be the death of you
Chase the sun
Fly

Past performances:

Inner Voices String Quartet, the Modern Studio, Knoxville, TN, May 11, 2018
Opal String Quartet, sponsored by Pan Harmonia, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Asheville, NC, November 13, 2016
Opal String Quartet, sponsored by Pan Harmonia, St. James Episcopal Church, Black Mountain, NC, November 11, 2016
Inner Voices String Quartet, The Hive, Knoxville, TN, November 13, 2015
NeoQuartet, the Asean Music Week, Nanning, China, May 2015
NeoQuartet, Festival Gdynia Classica Nova, Museum of the Town of Gdyna, Poland, October 12, 2014
Josh Henderson, Blake Allen, Susan D. Mandel, and Maya Bennardo on the Composer’s Voice Concert in Jan Hus Presbyterian Church in New York City, March 10, 2013 (premiere)