HOLLAND FESTIVAL ’69. STOCKHAUSEN PROGRAMMA. 1969.

27 x 26 m, 8pp plus pictorial covers and one glued down image on inside back cover. This was the original concert programme from the June 22, 1969 premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Theaterstuck Oben und Unten and Stimmung that took place during the Holland Festival of 1969. There are b/w photographs of the composer and the performers, and extracts from the scores throughout. Oben und Unten (“Above and below”) was part of Aus den sieben Tagen, a set of 15 text compositions by Stockhausen composed in May 1968. The piece has parts for a woman, man, and child, and a group of instrumentalists. As indicated in the program notes, “Sounds, words and phrases of man and woman are more or less indicated but not in detail. The child imitates some words heard from man and woman.” The performance was mocked in part by the audience and Stockhausen ended it early in offence. VG+. Somewhat scarce.