Do Your Job and Keep Your Mouth Shut: The Tiger Oil Memos (2015)

for baritone voice, trumpet, trombone, and bass clarinet

Duration: ca. 9'00"

Commissioned by loadbang

  • Premiere
    May 11, 2015
    loadbang
    National Opera Center
    New York, NY

In its machine-like rhythms and angular lines, Do Your Job and Keep Your Mouth Shut: The Tiger Oil Memos humorously remembers a time when the din of typewriters could be heard in offices everywhere and when administrative assistants were called secretaries. Adapted from a series of memos from Edward “Tiger Mike” Davis, CEO of the now-defunct Tiger Oil Company, to his employees, the memos paint a picture of a compassionless despot, bent on maximizing profits with cold efficiency.