Don't Be Evil
Subtitle: Fanfare for Band
General Info
Year: 2018
Duration: c. 1:55
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Lindveit Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $85.00; (digital) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $25.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Tom-Tom
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Don't Be Evil: Fanfare for Band is an irreverent critique of Big Tech neoliberalism, especially as practiced by Google, which celebrated its 20th birthday in 2018. The puzzling motto "Don't be evil" is part of Google’s corporate code of conduct. The idea of one of the world's largest tech companies telling itself to not be evil in the way it handles user data is both wildly hilarious and suggestively grim. Given that 2018 is also the 50th birthday of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, fragments of the song Daisy Bell (sung by the antagonist computer system HAL 9000 while it’s being shut down) appear in the piece in various guises.
- Program Note by composer
For the Yale Concert Band.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Symphonic Band (Shawn Vondran, conductor) - 2 June 2023
- University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) Wind Ensemble (Tyler Farrell, conductor) – 12 March 2019
- State University of New York, Fredonia, Concert Band (Ray Stewart, conductor) – 8 November 2018
- Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) Concert Band (Ryan Lindveit, conductor) – 13 April 2018 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Overture A2 (2023)
- Bass Clarinet Concerto (2023)
- Don't Be Evil (2018)
- The Great Unconformity (2017)
- Hopscotch (as arranger)
- Like an Altar with 9,000 Robot Attendants (2016)
- Mysterious Butterflies (2017/2018)
- Spinning Yarns (2015)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Ryan Lindveit, personal correspondence, October 2018
- Ryan Lindveit website Accessed 25 September 2018