ABSTRACT
The Transposed Heads had been a monumental creative undertaking for Glanville-Hicks. Work on Nausicaa had begun well before the composition of Drama for Orchestra, and our narrative now needs to return to 1958, a defining year in the creation of Nausicaa late January and early february 1958 were consumed by the New York production of The Transposed Heads. The Etruscan Concerto is an 18-minute piece scored for solo piano and chamber orchestra. It was completed in 1954 during the mid-year break in New York's concert season, shortly before Glanville-Hicks departed on a visit to the location of the ancient etruscan civilization that had inspired the piece. The Concerto Romantico is, as the title suggests, an unashamedly romantic work. It was written especially for the violist Walter Trampler, who featured in the first performance in February 1957 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
