NYFOS Next: A Perfect Rose: Dorothy Parker Songs

Feared for her “caustic” wit and dismissed for her “flapper verse,” Dorothy Parker’s words have proved irresistible to composers from the Jazz Age through the present. This concert features her poems refracted through a modern lens in works by Danika Lorén and Ricky Ian Gordon, as well as a theatrical gloss on one of Parker’s short stories, a new arrangement of her only jazz standard, “I Wished on the Moon,” and four brand new Parker songs by Jeremy Beck.

Program:

Jeremy Beck – Dorothy Parker Songs (2026) [World Premiere]

Katie Ernst – Bric a brac (2015)

Danika Lorén – Salome’s Dancing Lesson (2024)

Danika Lorén – Tombstones in the Starlight (2023)

Ricky Ian Gordon – One Perfect Rose (2024)

Ralph Rainger, arr. Beck Vontver – I Wished on the Moon (arr. 2026)

Valerie Coleman – Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano (2018)

Kerrigan Bigelow, soprano

Paulina Swierczek, soprano

Alec Manasse, clarinet

Nathaniel LaNasa, piano