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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23 | SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24 2019
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IN TUNE
Our Music Institute touts its ‘Music connects people’ mantra
Short Story Theatre presents an evening of true tales next week at Miramar Bistro in Highwood EDITED BY SHERRY THOMAS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
If you’re looking for an excuse to go out next Thursday night, check out Short Story Theatre at Miramar Bistro in Highwood. Founded in 2012, the organization is dedicated to promoting storytelling as a vibrant, contemporary art form. The four pieces presented at 7:30 p.m. on February 28 are warm, wise, and wonderful true stories told by people from the North Shore and Chicago. In “I’ve Become My Father,” Scott Woldman of Wilmette tells a story about drugs, violence, love, and the hope that the circle of life is not so circular. Rino Liberatore, also of Wilmette, recalls the big snowfall of ’67 and how it affected his job as a newsboy in his story “Hello, Work World.” Holly Birnbaum of Chicago shows how a baby boy and a man of a certain age walked Continued on PG 10
Our Music Institute Director Michael Poupko. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR BY DONALD LIEBENSON THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Northfield-based Our Music Institute (OMI) is part old school, part new school. It’s old school because it offers traditional group and one-on-one music lessons for all ages and experience levels. It’s new school for a couple of reasons—it’s, well, new,
having just opened in the Chase building at 400 Central Avenue, and it boasts a contemporary curriculum of classes and lessons for DJs, EDM production and studio recording. “The mission is simple: Our community, our education, our music,” OMI Director Michael Poupko, also a music teacher, notes. “Music connects people, but in this modern age that oftentimes gets lost.”
Take the internet (please), he reflects. “You can watch an instructional video on YouTube,” Poupko says, “but it’s not the same as personal hands-on instruction. When you interact and play with an actual human, you have a communication.” The old joke Those who can’t do, teach does Continued on PG 10
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