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When he was in seventh grade, Charlie Porter’s hands shook just before he was to perform his first improvised trumpet solo. Beads of sweat rolled down his neck, and his thoughts filled with doubt.
It was an outdoor lunch concert in public. Randy Sonntag, founding dean at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, sensed Porter’s anxiety and said, “Look, it’s easy.” Sonntag proceeded to play badly on purpose to show Porter that it was OK to play and not worry about sounding “correct” or “right.”
“Once I saw him do that, I knew I could do it, and I have been trying ever since,” Porter said.
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spokeswoman for Empowers Africa.
All proceeds from the event benefit the Duke Nelson Memorial Scholarship, an endowment fund under the Dreyfoos School of the Arts Foundation.
The scholarship was founded in memory of Duke Nelson, a Dreyfoos alumni who at 23 was shot while filming a rap video in Fort Lauderdale.
More than 100 people attended, including Dreyfoos development director
Chris Snyder; Duke s close friend
Ben Guy; artists
Elizabeth Thompson; and
Marco Posatti, Tommy Morrison, Manuel Balontin, Felicia Taylor, Christine Schott, Peter Soros, Electra Toub, Yaz Hernanez, Alain de Grelle, Alvin Valley, Michel Witmer, Jean Shafiroff, Christopher Castroviejo and
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