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As a large audience of Art Porter Music Education supporters waited for Norman Brown to take the stage Aug. 5 in the Robinson Center's William Grant Still ballroom in Little Rock, mistress of ceremonies Pamela Smith appeared instead with some bad news.
The first week of August in Little Rock has become synonymous with jazz, thanks to the organization known as Art Porter Music Education Inc. ... and despite the fact that A Work of Art, its signature week of fundraising concert performances, went on hiatus for two years because of the covid-19 pandemic.