A Song For Friday: Christopher Trapani

The American composer finds an underdog's song in every port

Six years ago, I first encountered the work of Christopher Trapani, a composer and educator from New Orleans, and it was one of those moments that changed my musical life. As I wrote in my review of the subsequent recording of the piece I first heard in concert, “Waterlines brought me back to the first time I heard Barstow by Harry Partch, to that feeli…