CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI!

The Department warmly congratulates Christopher Trapani, who successfully defended his DMA dissertation in Composition, Convergence Lines: A Musical Distillation of Thomas Pynchon’s V, on April 28, 2017. The composition submitted for the degree was Convergence Lines. Dr. Trapani's dissertation was advised by Alfred W. Lerdahl, the other members of the examining committee were Georg Friedrich Haas (chair), Bradford Garton, Edward Mendelson, and Marilyn Nonken.