https://euphonium.studio/tags/historic/Recent content in Historic on Euphonium StudioHugoen-ushttps://euphonium.studio/players/leonard-falcone/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://euphonium.studio/players/leonard-falcone/<p>Leonard Falcone was one of the first virtuosi to demonstrate what the baritone/euphonium could do as a lyrical solo instrument in America. Born in Italy and long associated with Michigan State University, where he directed the bands for decades, he was renowned for a singing, vocal style of playing modelled on the human voice and the great operatic tradition of his homeland.</p> <p>His influence outlived his performing career through the <strong>Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival</strong>, a major competition that has helped launch and validate generations of soloists. Falcone belongs to the instrument&rsquo;s founding generation in the United States — proof, well before the modern repertoire existed, that the euphonium deserved to be taken seriously as a voice.</p>