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….
The best-known trumpet voluntary is the Prince of Denmark's March, a composition byJeremiah Clarke written circa 1700. It is very popular as wedding music and was played at the 1981 wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. For many years the piece was attributed incorrectly to Jeremiah Clarke's elder and more widely known contemporary Henry Purcell.
