Danielle Lussier, a Ph.D. candidate in History who will be this year’s Una’s Fellow at the Townsend Center, will be working on a dissertation entitled Bartok ‘on trial’ in Budapest and Paris, 1945-1955. The project proposes to use the reception of the music of the Hungarian composer as a lens through which to examine trends in European musical culture in the decade that marked the new “East-West” split. Lussier will chronicle the course of controversies among composers over the appropriateness of particular stylistic paths, expressive and formalist, and she will reflect on the aesthetic and political demands that each supposedly represented.