Talk:Leonard Falcone

Brian Bowman anecdote
On 16 April 201, User:Troiano220 added the note that Brian Bowman was known to have said he studied Falcone's recordings. I left the following on his talk page :


 * I noticed that you recently edited the article Leonard Falcone including a some appropriate trivia on Brian Bowman who was mentioned therein. I have cleaned that up a bit, but retained your notable point. What is needed now is to provide a proper footnote for the information. I believe that Bowman made the statement in an Instrumentalist Magazine (or possible School Musician Magazine) article profiling the leading euphonium artists of the day. It had been noted by the interviewer that most of the set were Falcone students and Bowman had responded that he studied the recordings, but not with Falcone. If you know the date, volume and page # info, please add it to the inline citation there and remove the . If you need help with that edit, please respond on my talk page. Thanks for adding to Wikipedia !--Rwberndt (talk) 17:04, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

I have not been able to dig through the boxes to find this article yet. If anyone knows the proper refference for this statement, please add it or leave a note here.--Rwberndt (talk) 16:52, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I understand that his name is pronounced "fal-CONE-ee," and not "fal-CONE." The pronunciation should be added to the beginning of the article, in the official phonetic pronunciation that vanishingly few of us understand, but perhaps also in a comprehensible phonetic spelling. Edison (talk) 01:30, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * You are correct. He pronounced the E at the end. There were those who tried to convince him, especially during the time of the Axis pact, to use the later pronunciation, however, as a fiercely patriotic American citizen, he believed that the US was the kind of country that judged and rewarded people based on merit, not pretense - as his life demonstrated. He also shirked the "Dr." title after the honorary degree and was simply "Professor" or "Mr. Falcone". I have not seen phonetics in other biography articles however. If there is a convention on wikipwedia for this, I hope it will be added, but thus far those of us editing this have not seen such.--Rwberndt (talk) 23:09, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * What does WW2 have to do with it? Il Duce was not "Mussilone." The naive reader would assume the name rhymed with Capone. Is it a "Northern Italy-Southern Italy" thing? Articles with subjects having ambiguous pronunciations need phonetic spelling in the introduction. Edison (talk) 03:43, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Sourcing edits
To whomever added the family section from an anonymous IP - please source such information. Only those who knew Falcone know of the accuracy of such statements and, yes, they are accurate. But Wikipedia requires verifiable sources for information with a particularly strict adherence where biographies are concerned. I fear this detail may disappear in the future without proper sourcing.Rwberndt (talk) 20:22, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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Solid Brass and the Bloomquist Quote
Perhaps Ken will personally comment here one day. I wonder about his quote because I never heard Falcone phrase the thought that way.

Solid brass is an interesting account of Falcone's life, but one that very much reflects the way others perceived it - and his public persona. I have found many quotes in the book that are just a little off. I have to wonder if the Bloomquist quote is another, as Falcone wondered daily what was afflicting him as his health deteriorated for many months. The symptoms he experienced were pretty serious and impactful. Many many times he said to me "Ron, I don't know what is happening to me", or "why this is happening to me", but the words that followed and are omitted here were "The doctors wont tell me anything except to take some pills and get some rest. They won't tell me what is wrong". This bothered him greatly because as bad as things were in the Fall, he already knew that he could not lead a band, let alone travel, unless his condition were reversed. But the doctors did nothing for him and he just got worse. He somehow willed himself to come into the office right up until his last says, concerned that everyone was depending on him for the alumni band tour and that he was going to let them down. I spent dozens and dozens of hours with him those last 6 months of his life, and to this day, I still wonder, as he did, what they hid from him.

But my point was the phrasing is off. He always said "I dont know why" not the interrogative "why is this". It was unlike him to ask a question when he could instead state his situation and await a useful response. Questions were reserved for prompting students to discover what they were doing wrong. It was a fundamental part of his core mannerisms. So it just seems odd. Rwberndt (talk) 22:53, 5 April 2022 (UTC)