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hi my name is Timothy Corliss and I am

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the composer of the piece entitled Nisa

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pox

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the mesa parks is a piece that i wrote

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now almost 10 years ago or began writing

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at ten years ago and at that time in my

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life i was trying to reconcile two

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worldviews that were significant to me

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one was the church liturgical tradition

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that i grew up in and when i was a young

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adult in my early 20s I became involved

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in the activist community in Ontario and

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as I think most of your viewers would

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know those two communities often

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disagree this is something that you know

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I had to come to terms with in my own

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life right where where does my my past

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come together where the intersection

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points so the Mesa Parks was my attempt

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to reconcile those two worlds

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my favorite section of the piece is

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probably the Gloria the Gloria is the

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heart of the work you know the whole

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piece has a lot of ambiguity right you

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you can’t always tell you can’t always

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tell whether what’s happening is

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conflict or resolution and this you feel

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in the Gloria right that’s a big

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Alleluia at the end of the Gloria and

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there’s two courts you know kind of

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compete with each other the g-major

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chord of a flat court and they’re always

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just opposed and and it’s dissonance in

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that but also tremendous beauty and the

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Alleluia at the end you know just kind

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of is this ecstatic expression of this

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you know fact that there’s always

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tension in life and the tension wants to

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resolve but then you know there it is

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again and you know this is again part of

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this experience of trying to reconcile

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my own passions as an activist with my

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my church past and feeling the tension

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in that and then it’s expressed in this

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great grand Alleluia

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which you know carries all of that in

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the sort of rich sonority that’s that’s

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there

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I’m really honored deeply honored and

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the Amadeus choir has acquired that I

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followed since I was young I mean this

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is like kind of one of the best choirs

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that could possibly do it

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yeah I have some YouTube videos and a

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website and a SoundCloud page people can

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just basically Google my name and those

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come

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just that I wish that I could be at the

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performance and I’m sure that it’ll be

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absolutely tremendous I’ve most respect

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for for your organization and every

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concept of ever been to has been

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absolutely brilliant

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so I be there in spirit

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