Originally designed as a response to the rapidly changing creative world of 2020 amidst the unprecedented COVID disruptions; The Summer Chores was created as a motivational tool for home use over the summer months for students and teachers alike, the intension being that the performer plays all the parts to each piece while learning and experimenting how to record themselves, learn how to make a click-track, how to multi-track, mix, video-edit and more….
Lew Pollack was born in New York City, among his best-known songs are Charmaine and Diane. That's a Plenty is a 1914 ragtime piano composition by Pollack. Lyrics were added decades later and a number of popular vocal versions have been recorded, but it is more often performed as an instrumental. The composition started out as a rag but is nowadays more often than not played as part of the Dixieland jazz repertoire. The song has been recorded by numerous artists and is considered a jazz standard.
