Hunter Music Graduate Students Win First and Second Prizes for Millenson Library Research Awards

The Music Department swept the Millenson Library Research Awards in the Graduate Category. Catherine Langevin Falcon took first prize for her paper, “Marie, the daughter of the 21st Regiment: proto-feminist or sentimental heroine?”, and Ramya Thiyagarajan took second prize for her paper, “Salome: Of Femme Fatale, Gaze and Rejection of the Feminine.” Both were written for Professor Coppola’s Fall 2022 graduate course on Women in Mozart’s Operas.

The winners will be celebrated at the Library Day event on April 26, 2:30-4 pm, in the Faculty Center of the Library (HE540). Winners and their professors will participate in a panel discussion of the work, with an awards ceremony to follow.