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CUSP Presents: Melanie Emig, Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices” // Mortimore / Young duo

 

Start: January 30, 2026 8:00 pm
End: January 30, 2026 10:00 pm

Convivium 33 Gallery
Address:
1433 E. 33rd St
Cleveland, Ohio – 44114

Admission Price: $ ($0 - $25)

Melanie Emig Mortimore / Young Melanie Emig performs Morton Feldman's "Three Voices" (1982), to commemorate Feldman's 100th birthday. "Three Voices" is a composition for voice and pre-recorded tracks. Written in memoriam to his friend and poet, Frank O’Hara. The work is mostly sung without text, however the few fragments of text are from O’Hara's 1957 poem "Wind." WIND to Morton Feldman Who’d have thought that snow falls it always circled whirling like a thought in the glass ball around me and my bear Then it seemed beautiful containment snow whirled nothing ever fell nor my little bear bad thoughts imprisoned in crystal beauty has replaced itself with evil And the snow whirls only in fatal winds briefly then falls it always loathed containment beasts I love evil (CP 269) Melanie Emig is a performance curator, musician, and educator whose work blends music with visual storytelling. She is a 2025 recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Interdisciplinary Art. Melanie produces interdisciplinary music performances that integrate strong visual and narrative elements. As a curator, she has been awarded the Neighbor Up Action Grant and the Quire Cleveland Community Grant. Alongside frequent collaborator Naomi Columna, they received the Satellite Fund through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to create their original performance work What I Meant… [DANCINGBANANA_gif]. As a vocalist, Melanie has performed with Apollo’s Fire, Quire Cleveland, and the Trinity Cathedral Chamber Choir. She is also a Suzuki piano instructor and music educator, maintaining a studio at The Music Settlement in University Circle. // J. Tracy Mortimore, double bass/composer Lenny Young, oboe/English horn/composer Double bassist J. Tracy Mortimore and oboist Lenny Young have been working together both as a duo and as collaborators in larger projects for two decades. On a technical level, they focus on conceptual structures to create improvised music and the implementation of the novel color possibilities of their instruments. On an esthetic level, they explore ways to sustain a musical dialog between two melodic instruments. The music they make ranges from delicate spectrally tinged textures to complex polyphony to theatric and absurdist gestures. A native of Toronto, Canada, J. Tracy Mortimore has enjoyed an extensive career as a double bassist performing contemporary classical music and improvised music. In the Toronto new music scene, he worked regularly with many ensembles including Array Music, Fifth Species, L'Ensemble Denis Schingh, New Music Concerts and Continuum. During this period, he became increasingly interested in music that involved both improvised and/or electronic elements. In 2000, he moved to Pittsburgh PA and became involved with the improvising music scene in the city, performing regularly with the groups Syrinx Ensemble, Dust and Feathers and Comprov Group in addition to numerous special projects and since 2016, he has been the bassist for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, a new music ensemble based in north east Ohio focusing on presenting the music of composers living in the region. Lenny Young is a performer, improviser, teacher, arranger and conductor. As an oboist he has performed with the Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Youngstown, Altoona, Johnstown, Westmoreland and McKeesport Symphonies, as well as the American Wind Symphony, the Mendelssohn Choir or Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Resonance Works, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater, Point Park Conservatory, and Pennsylvania Dance Theater. Lenny has worked in a variety of chamber-music settings, including new music groups such as the Duquesne New Music Ensemble, Alia Musica Pittsburgh and Kamratōn. He was a co-leader for several Pittsburgh-based improvisational ensembles, including Ensemble Duchamp, Levendis Duo, Comprov Group, and Dust and Feathers and has curated their Music at Third concert series since 2017.

 

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