How do you say...

[clagar777]

I have heard people pronounce Falcone two different ways...more than once on each. Is it Falcone as in "conehead" or Falcone as in Coney Island?

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[randy westmoreland]

Leonard Falcone was an early musical influence for me. When I was a High School sophmore I went to district solo and ensemble competition. I played my school clunky bell front Besson tuba and "performed" Variations on Blow the Man Down. While I was playing, the adjudicator, older than the hills, spoke his comments aloud to his assistant, who wrote them down. After receiving my III from someone who obviously did not know art when he heard it, I vowed to make a musical comeback. I eventually was playing DMA tuba recitals with some success.

Falcone (coney) was an incredible musician, and a very nice gentleman who had the habit of setting his baritone down on top of the trash can in his studio (until it had to be fished out of the dumpster). And as it turned out, he knew what he was talking about all along!

[drow2buh]

I've generally heard it spoken as Fal-cone-ay as opposedy to coney, like it was a french name or something. It sounds neater that way at least