Commissioned by the Young Audiences organization, Daniel Dorff's Stone Soup: An Operatic Fable in One Delicious Act is being published for the first time by Theodore Presser Company. This work has received well over a thousand school performances in its original piano version, as well as many full productions with orchestra. Using catchy tunes, humor, and a story about food, the message that "it takes all kinds of people to make up a happy town" is heard as a clear parallel to "it takes all kind...

• I. Overture
• II. Soldier's Scene
• III. Soldier's Song
• IV. All Kinds of People
• V. Jobs Trio
• VI. Magic Scene
• VII. Stone Soup Song
• VIII. Magic Interlude
• IX. Street Cry
• X. Food Fight Duet
• XI. Good Smell Song
• XII. Magic Words (reprise)
• XIII. Finale