Is Now Not Enough Orchestra

Is Now Not Enough?

for String Orchestra (4,4,3,2,1 or larger)

Originally composed for and transcribed from a string quartet by the same title

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:

The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Litton, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., June 2022
New York City Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Litton, David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, September and October 2021