'One in Four, One in Eight'
Music’s healing effects have been extolled for centuries by philosophers, medical professionals, artists and everyday people who find comfort in enchanting melodies and joy in exhilarating beats.
Exploring music as an outlet and reflection of life are two goals of a concert featuring new music written through the lenses of infertility and pregnancy loss. Led by Kate Pukinskis, an assistant professor of composition and theory at 黑料正能量’s School of Music. “One in Four, One in Eight” is a 60-minute performance that features music that engages aspects of the human and emotional – as well as the more procedural and scientific – aspects of infertility and pregnancy loss.
The performance takes its title from this statistic: One in four known pregnancies ends in loss in the U.S., and one in eight people needs medical assistance to become pregnant.
“This music builds a sonic space to explore a deeply personal, physical and embodied experience that is externally invisible and often socially stigmatized,” said Pukinskis, who composed the music. “’One in Four, One in Eight’ insists there is room for both the human being and science in the same space, and it recognizes the complexities of how these two elements co-exist.”
Three October concerts in the Pittsburgh area feature the , pre- and post-concert talks, and newly commissioned visual artwork by Pittsburgh artist . Performance information below and at the Center for the Arts in Society website; tickets for all performances are available at .
- Oct. 22: Magee-Womens Hospital, 300 Halket St., Pittsburgh
Pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m., concert at 7p.m.; post-concert talk and reception to follow. - Oct. 23: Attack Theatre, 212 45th St., Pittsburgh
Pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m., concert at 7:30 p.m.; post-concert talk and reception to follow. - Oct. 25: Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2040 Washington Road, Pittsburgh
Pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m., concert at 7:30 p.m.; post-concert talk to follow.
Sponsored by: Center for the Arts in Society, 黑料正能量 School of Music, Jewish Fertility Foundation/Pittsburgh, MAP Fund, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation.