Editing Dorothy Parker (section)

== Adaptations ==

In 1982, [[Anni-Frid Lyngstad]] recorded "Threnody", set to music by [[Per Gessle]], for her third solo album ''[[Something's Going On]]'', after she offered him a book of poems by Dorothy Parker.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://roxetteblog.com/2022/03/16/per-gessle-demo-cassettes-teac-at-home-no-1-2-3/|title=Per Gessle demo cassettes TEAC At Home No. 1-2-3|first=Patrícia|last=Peres|date=March 16, 2022}}</ref>

In the 2010s some of her poems from the early 20th century have been set to music by the composer [[Marcus Paus]] as the operatic song cycle ''[[Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra]]'' (2014);<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/skarpe-historiedrommer-1.1459639|title=Fanger teatrets toner på hvert sitt drømmende album|website=www.dagsavisen.no|date=2 April 2019 }}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fvn.no/article/fvn-P2jPX.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618171021/https://www.fvn.no/article/fvn-P2jPX.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 18, 2021|title=Urfremfører Paus-opera i Kilden|website=www.fvn.no|date=January 28, 2014}}</ref> Paus's ''Hate Songs'' was described by musicologist [[Ralph P. Locke]] as "one of the most engaging works" in recent years; "the cycle expresses Parker's favorite theme: how awful human beings are, especially the male of the species".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Locke |first1=Ralph P. |author-link=Ralph P. Locke |title=Die sieben Todsünden and other works |url=https://www.kwf.org/images/newsletter/kwn371p12-18.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712003124/https://www.kwf.org/images/newsletter/kwn371p12-18.pdf |archive-date=2020-07-12 |url-status=live |journal=Kurt Weill Newsletter |volume=37|issue=1 |pages=18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Locke |first1=Ralph P. |author-link=Ralph P. Locke |date=2019-12-13|title=Locke's List: Best Opera and Vocal Music of 2019 |url=https://www.classical-scene.com/2019/12/13/lockes-list-2019/ |journal=The Boston Musical Intelligencer }}</ref>

With the authorization of the [[NAACP]],<ref>{{Cite web | title=Not So Deep as a Well by Myriam Gendron | url=https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/album/not-so-deep-as-a-well | quote=The composer wishes to thank the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for authorizing the use of Dorothy Parker's works. | year=2014 | website=[[Bandcamp]] | access-date=August 21, 2023}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=August 2023}} lyrics taken from her book of poetry ''Not So Deep as a Well'' were used in 2014 by Canadian singer [[Myriam Gendron]] to create a [[Contemporary folk music|folk]] album of the same title.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/myriam-gendron-inspired-by-dorothy-parker-poems-1.2964068 | last=Kelly | first=Jeanette | website=[[CBC.ca|CBC]] | date=February 20, 2015 | title=Myriam Gendron inspired by Dorothy Parker poems | access-date=August 22, 2023}}</ref> Also in 2014, [[Chicago]] [[jazz]] bassist/singer/composer [[Katie Ernst]] issued her album ''Little Words'', consisting of her authorized settings of seven of Parker's poems.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/katie-ernst-jazz-bass-singer-twin-talk/Content?oid=21877053 |newspaper=[[Chicago Reader]] |author=Margasak, Peter |date=April 26, 2016 |title=Jazz bassist and vocalist Katie Ernst rises like the tide |access-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{citation
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In 2021 her book ''Men I'm Not Married To'' was adapted as an opera of the same name by composer Lisa DeSpain and librettist Rachel J. Peters. It premiered virtually as part of Operas in Place and Virtual Festival of New Operas commissioned by Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Voice Performance, Cleveland Opera Theater, and On Site Opera on February 18, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Men I'm Not Married To|url=https://www.bwvp.org/men|access-date=2022-01-30|website=BWVP|language=en}}</ref>