The laughing kookaburras : a space fable in 3 acts
Title:
The laughing kookaburras : a space fable in 3 acts
Author:
Smit, Leo, 1921-1999.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Alchemy of love
Physical Description:
1 manuscript score (4 volumes) ; 43 x 34 cm
Summary:
A comic opera set on "the evening side of planet 197/43."
General Note:
Holograph.
Manuscript date, "Dec. 21, 1961, " at end of Act II ; orchestral sketches apparently written ca. 1965-1969.
Rare Book Room copy: gift of the composer.
Language:
English
Contents:
[v. 1] Act I -- [v. 2] Act II -- [v. 3] Act III -- [v. 4] Orchestra sketches, Act III.
Local Note:
Vols. 1 & 2 in portfolios ; Vol. 3 laid in portfolio half-bound in tan cloth with blue and yellow patterned paper, and with a black levant spine label stamped in gilt, "Leo Smit -- Suite from Virginia Sampler" ; Vol. 4 in cardboard folder.
Personal Subject: