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
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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.